Following up on what I learned under Geoff Lawton and PRI I have become a founding member at PermaEthos.com.
This community based Permaculture Farm model will be changing farms all over the United States very soon.
Stay tuned for more updates and always feel free to email me at
kmurphy@dwsmit...
One year cycling around the mediterranean countries visiting
farms and educational centres which are run under the permaculture principles.
This in order to study how under one climatic area different countries deal
with similar issues and reporting it by making written, photographic and video...
A small 1.4 hectare farm that I acquired in July 2014 and that I'm going to turn into a productive small-scale food forest system based on permaculture principles.
It's July here at PRI Tap o' Noth and the Elderflowers are just starting to lose their petals and reveal the young green berries that we will pick in autumn when dark and ripe. It's been a great elderflower season this summer with the large creamy white blooms peeking out from here and there in t...
What was once a rose garden of 120+ varieties of rose and lawn now supports a booming abundance of food, medicinals, herbs, and habitat. A laundry to landscape greywater system provides water for the fruit trees and grape vine.
We have access to a 30 year old pine plantation where we are getting the wood for the hugel beds. The plantation has never been thinned out, so there are lots of standing dead we can use.
We used up the first pile we accumulated, so now we have to head back out with the chain saw and get back t...
we are building an "erdship" (a building out of recycled materials based on ideas of an earthsip) and are hoping to transform a land without biomass into a flourishing food forest and teaching how it is done to the locals as well as offering Permaculture courses.
We are starting to get a bunch of ripening blueberries. There are still a bunch that aren't ready yet. Because we planted early, mid, and late season varieties we should have a pretty lengthy season.
I plan to take cuttings from my existing plants once all the fruit has been picked. When we w...
At Hill Top Farm we use a unique and innovative design and decision-making framework in the Permaculture courses and learning resources we provide. Nature has had millions of years to fine tune designing sustainable and self-maintaining systems. At Hill Top Farm we tap into this wisdom by transla...
Started project in Sep 2013. My back operation resulted in me needing an assistant to pick up heavy items for me. As such most progress was made every second Sunday when Johannes can to help me. We had to remove large paving blocks to make way for th enew kitchen garden. Some of the blocks were u...
