This videos shows what was at one time the original homestead at Elisha Springs farm.  We have converted it into housing for a tenant farmer. Below the building is the original root cellar.  It is definitely a “tiny house” at only 9×12 feet for a total of only 108 square feet.  But it is a real...

Today until Monday morning member of the TSP Members Brigade and the Brink of Freedom Premium Members Program have first come first serve access to the program.  On Monday any of the remaining 1,000 spots will be opened to the general public, again if any remain. The membership will convey lif...

Very occasionally I feel the passing of time more strongly than at other times. This past week was one of those weeks. At the farm this translates to: more work, less fun. Maybe the weather was just conducive to working as the winter rain eased off. However, there was one night when the w...

Dr Sharashkin shows how Russian families have preserved a unique traditional lifestyle grounded in self-sufficiency and self-reliance - offering a path to a more fulfilling, independent, connected and mortgage-free existence. As millions of people the world over begin to embrace these ideas, huma...

A permaculture based homestead including chickens, bees, ducks, large breed rabbits, and numerous natural building projects.

Modern agriculture, industry and finance all extract more than they give back, and the Earth is starting to show the strain. How did we get in this mess and what can we do to help our culture get back on track? The ecological design approach known as permaculture offers powerful tools for the des...

Hemenway is a frequent teacher, consultant and lecturer on permaculture and ecological design throughout the U.S. and other countries. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review and American Gardener. He is an adjunct professor in the School of Graduate Educati...

A presentation by Professor Stuart Hill University of Western Sydney, to the Blue Mountains Permaculture community in June 2011, on permaculture and the 'inner landscape'.http://www.stuartbhill.com  

Our good king henry perennial spinach and kale were showing signs of stress in the hot summer like days we have been having. We had some old sliding door screens that we mounted over the beds to help filter the hot sunlight. So far it's working well. When we get greater heat and sun in August we ...

Many of our plantings have reached the 3 year mark and they are maturing well and producing fruit. Each year brings more bounty. We have dug more swales and have now an extensive swale system on the property. This Spring we have planted more perennial veggies besides the asparagus we planted a ...

Vallescuropasso Food Forest Research Trust is a project to establish a Food Forest in an the hedge of Pianura Padana

last fall i started my small scale forest garden, planted in about 27 canopy fruiting trees,10 fruiting and n-fix bushes, some herbaceus perennial useful plants and planty annual vegetables in the space between the others and started a nursery of perennials to plant next year. in the meanwhile th...

To establish a best practise permaculture organic farm.

Our one acre demonstration food forest at Clear Sky Meditation Center is located in the East Kootenay of BC.  I'm just back from a work weekend and the trees have had a great amount of growth and look very healthy. We focused on weed whacking and mowing this trip.  I'll post photos soon.

  Humanure, which one is it - embarrassing waste product or invaluable, free fertiliser? Heh, what do you reckon?! The human body has within its waste products (faeces and urine) pretty much all the suitable nutrients needed to help grow the food we need to keep ourselves healthy and well fed. ...

Hello world! This is a brand new permaculture group, intended to bring together the good people of Galveston in an effort to develop a more sustainable and resilient community. Join the conversation!

Hello Permaculture Friends,  Since moving to Galveston and wrapping up commitments to the Festival Beach Food Forest, I've launched a new group called Permaculture Galveston. Geoff Lawton's strategies for an Alternative Global Nation are being used as guidance as well as Rob Hopkin's Transition ...

Hi!   After my PDC in January, I was involved in 2 different projects in Spain building with straw and mud. Both load bearing, the first with stacking bales, the second with walls mad of a mixture of straw and mud. Learned a lot, since the people of the projects were also just experimenting an...