The year is coming to a close, the nights are getting very long - time for a much overdue update of our year here in the West of Ireland at 53N. On the farming front it has been a very good year, though we have unfortunately had much family trauma and my partner hasn’ t been here much as a re...

We ended up building a house that I designed, out of rammed earth, rocks, brick, cement and wood.  Since the local electric grid is already generated by wind and water power, we decided to hold off on a solar electric system, but are using solar hot water, composting toilets, rainwater catchment ...

About Bee in the Garden: An inspiration of Sean Newton, “Bee in the Garden” became a fun weekly tradition that took place every Sunday from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. This was on-going from Sept 2012 to Dec 2013.   Sean came bearing hot water, tea cups and a few extra pair of work gloves (for those ...

    Link to Spring Ridge Commons Brochure: http://springridge.rd123.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Spring-Ridge-Commons-Brochure.pdf  

  Link to Spring Ridge Commons Brochure: http://springridge.rd123.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Spring-Ridge-Commons-Brochure.pdf

http://holmgren.com.au/rainbow-serpent-2015-promotion/    

This has fallen through so now I am looking for another place to make happy.

The title of this week’s blog is a nod to Steven King’s truly frightening short story written way back in 1978. The story revolved around a demon haunted town in the corn belt of the US. The demon in that town decreed that no one in that area should live past their 19th birthday and all of ...

It has been a journey of 10 years sonce I first sat in on a PDc, to finally attending a compleate PDC in 2007 and now 7 years later finally teaching a dinkum 72 hour desiugn course with Tarryn Rice. Wish us luck

We are situated in the Sierra Nevada, Spain. Located between 1300 and 1470 meter above sea level.We live completely off grid. The land has twelve hectares , which of two hectares have been fenced. There is a full grown food forest below the main house. We arrived on this farm in 2011 after a se...

The introduction course will only take place saturday and sunday. this format will be kept for the courses following in late winter/spring 2015. get your certificate in 5 or 6 week-ends! watch this space.

In 2015 we will start our inaugural Certificate and Diploma courses. These courses are: The Certificate of Permaculture Farm Leading Hand and The Diploma of Permaculture Demonstration, Teaching and Consulting. These are targeted career courses, only for people who wish to make a career ...

I missed out on the first two days of this three-day permablitz. The first day was spent clearing a path through dense woody vegetation for the swale and berm system and cutting down dead trees on the slope up above. The second day was spent lining up the dead tree material into two 300-foot "dea...

6 e 7 Dezembro 2014 9h.30m às 17.00Valor: 50€Local; Senhora D'Azenha - Centro de Artes e Ofícios do MundoPrai das Maçãs / Sintra Inscrições e informações: [email protected] seres humanos sentimos o chamamento para viver e evoluir com a natureza e não contra ela.A Permacultura é a ciên...

http://dasementearvore.blogspot.pt/2014/11/porque-tirar-um-curso-de-design-em.html   Estudando e aplicando os princípios da permacultura aprendes a desenvolver designs sustentáveis que são aplicados na rotina diária, reforças as tuas ligações com a natureza desenvolvendo a tua criatividade e in...

Pakaraka Farm is a 215 acres of diverse ecological agriculture projects and regenerating bush, Located in the beautiful Kauaeranga Valley. Right on the Kauaeranga river. On the farm you will find sheep, cows, chickens, worms, bees, olive orchard, pecan orchard, chestnut orchard, home fruit o...

Transforming an ordinary suburban block into a regenerative and productive food forest and edible garden.

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