Often I inspect the produce in the garden and find it hard pressed to locate insect pests, yet these little 10 gram/ .4 ounce song birds will fly into the garden on seemingly endless trips and find insects to feed their young.  I have been building the population of these birds in and around my ...

Heres some pics of my water catchment project.  At this point we have gotten about 2 inches of rain from the storm, and I have collected as much as I have storage for at this point in time  

The 2014 North American convergence was held at Harmony Park in southern Minnesota, USA. Attendees at the convergence were treated to an early and intense thunderstorm and tornado watch, as is the common practice in Minnesota for any outdoor event in summer. Sunny and fresh cool mornings welc...

Permaculture is a wonderful (and revolutionary) way of living a balanced, healthy and happy life. The aim of our Home-grown Happiness course is to teach Permaculture in a holistic way, applying it to our every-day lives. It’s about how to close the loops and apply the ethics and principles of per...

Leaving the city, moving to the country. Building a Permaculture Homestead and Orchard.

WE INVITE YOUR PARTICIPATION Permaculture North Central Victoria is very pleased to announce Lisa Heenan will MC and Darren J. Doherty (Regrarians) will present at ‘A Celebration Connecting the Many Facets of a Permanent Culture’ with SOIL HEALTH KEY to ALL …from the home garden, community...

Permaculture North Central Victoria is very pleased 
Lisa Heenan will MC and Darren J. Doherty (aka Regrarians) will present at ‘A Celebration Connecting the Many Facets of a Permanent Culture’ withSOIL HEALTH KEY to ALL….from the home garden, community space and small acreage farm to the manage...

Wyalong Farm will be developed in a series of Projects via participatory Workshops following the Memorandum of Understanding for becoming a Permaculture Research Institute 'Master Plan' site with the goal to establish an accredited Permaculture Demonstration and Education Centre.

Find the Analysis Report Document for the Project here

The phone call came through on Friday from the supplier that the new water tank was ready to be picked up. I couldn’t honestly say that the excavation site at the farm was ready for the new water tank to be installed on. Also, the truth was that when I received the phone call, I was sever...

Spring has arrived early this year. As I write this article, I’m sitting out in the food forest writing on a warm, late winter’s evening, supervising the chickens and pondering the future summer season. You see, water is a critical system at the farm here, so it is often on my mind.   ...

Permaculture Design Certification Course Rancho Mastatal, Costa Rica April 19th through May 2nd, 2015 Join renowned permaculture instructors Chris Shanks, Mitch Haddad, Scott Gallant and Laura Killingbeck for this annual life-changing 2-week experience. The course covers the core Permacult...

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The end of September beginning of October will see the first step of this adventure we are embarking on! Come help Permablitz a little piece of Mother Gaia some where in The Beira region of Portugalia!

I am welcoming a crew of like minded folks to come and join me at Fonte da Junca to help create the first swales for the Food Forest Garden for our soon to become a small Permaculture Education Centre. We shall be surveying, marking contours,assessing how much ground cover will be needed,trees,bu...

Following are some of the highlights of our efforts this year at Growing Wild LLC. Thanks to all our members and their donations of time and energy and material over the years. Win-Win TimeBank Not a lot of activity in the timebank this year. We have around 40 active members, but  most everyone...

In our garden we have built a pond in 2013 ... more of a hole in which it has enough clay that remains as a while the water. Unfortunately, this was not enough in the very cold winter and our pond was a long time without water. Now spring has very much been raining and our pond was again quite fu...