Sunday June 15th We created a no-dig bed and planted it up nicely. Also staked out and forked the groud for the next bed to go in next Sunday. We must collect new materials for it of course, and this time we are announcing it publicly to hopefully draw a few new people.  

Have been in the on-line PDC course with Geoff Lawton and have been LOVING it!  Have met some great people and look forward to conspiring on PDC projects in the very near future.  Check out this web page and contact me if you would like to conspire.  www.youcanmakeadent.org 

With a tightening budget and an extremely late winter, we weren't able to erect a greenhouse, delegating all of our transplants to two small cold-frames.  They did not perform well to say the least, so we're off to an even later start than last year.We did manage to get a couple of langstroth bee...

Transforming a conventional cattle ranch into a diverse permaculture property.

Self sustainable/off the grid house.

Since coming up with this plan just last August so many lessons have been learned that I no longer chastise myself for not moving fast enough.  In fact, my original projection of events was so unrealistic it's laughable. For a start, I envisaged a crowdfunding effort before Christmas!  Talk about...

A Permaculture centre on Morocco's Atlantic coast and a Permaculture Cooperative involving 2 communities and their 100ha of degraded farmland.

In Capira, I will purchase some trees, and this being the wet season, I will walk them into the land. If someone wants to help, please call 6962 4260.  

Also shown erosion control methods such as a rock much rundown. There is NO irrigation in this forest garden. All plants have been selected for local adaptability, or are native to the immediate area. A few annuals are planted in current "gaps" that will be turned into basins with more natives af...

restoring an old farm with garden and food forest to start,

5 Acre Demonstration site zoned - Rural Residential.

Before the big day, I was asked to do an interview with radio Goolari. This went extremely well. On the day we had over 30 people crammed into my yard.We discussed the permacultre idea in an urban setting, what plants I was growing now (over 100). Water harvesting (condensation catchment), Org...

Sunday June 8th We forked the ground in preparation for the first bed. We've decided to concentrate on making one bed for starters to see how it goes and do the second one afterwards and perhaps make it a public demonstration event. A few people also brought plants which we have placed temp...

We are in the beginning stages of building The Siddha School at Kailash Akhara. As part of Dharma inc project www.dharmainc.org. We are experimenting with different forms of natural building to create an inspiring environment for the k-1 school building. This is part of an initiative to develop a...

Kununurra Community Garden Inc. and our first site was set up to educate and demonstrate permaculture principles and how they can be applied locally to produce plentiful food on a small area without the need for great overheads, chemicals or inappropriate energy consumption.

The full article can be found here: http://permaculturenews.org/2014/06/02/lets-talk-collapse/ I’m a reasonably even tempered sort of a bloke, but recently I’ve been feeling a bit, well, shall we say, unsettled. The feelings began after reading David Holmgren’s essay Crash on demand. It ...