It was a great week-end, nice weather, meaningful conversations and just a few black flies! 11 interns from Solutionera.com, our partner in the summer courses, arrived on thursday to help prepare the grounds, cook meals for 25 people and pretty up the place. Everything was ready for the intense ...

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Our soils are pretty heavy clay so I was curious to see what would happen if we just dug a quick hole and piled up the spill on the down hill slope. Had a spare 30 minutes left on the mini-excavator we rented to put in the front swales and decided to try an 'ad-hoc' duck pond.  I've seeded the f...

Ownership and legal access has limited our acess to the land. However great progress has been made on the master-plan. The volunteer work took place on the existing site of the HK Perma Club instead. It's rainy season here in Hong Kong, and not only not a lot of work can be done, but it has m...

Our regular meeting was postponed until May 12th, when the official results of the 2014 Sustainability Fund recipients would be announced. On that day, we learned our project would be funded and so, we have enthusiastically begun! Yesterday, June 1st, we had our inaugural session and groundbre...

As it happens, I am pleased to hear the garden is being taken as a  example and sample of practice for a guided visit by a north Antwerp (Kapellen) branch of the transition movement.   The guided visit will take place by the current custodian of the project. slideshow on picasa    

As it happens, the garden is being taken as an example of practice for the north Antwerp  transition movement. A guided visit will take place by the current custodian of the project. I would be pleased to pass on details for those interested.  please PM

Detailed weather information for many localities = historical rainfall, snowfall, temperature, wind speed, etc. great resource. http://weather-history.findthebest.com Some good demo videos - I have used the one on espalier http://www.groworganic.com/organic-gardening/videos Interestin...

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When we bought the property, both housing and water supply were in a sad state. The house is bad by design, the water supply depending on dirty concrete tanks, barely sufficient for more than a few people. So we installed some new water tanks, of which we put 2 higher than the house backed up wit...

Third Millennium Alliance (TMA) was founded in 2007 with the purchase of 100 acres and the establishment of the Jama-Coaque Reserve (JCR) in the western province of Manabí, Ecuador, between the cities of Jama and Pedernales, and four kilometers inland. Now encompassing over 1,000 acres, the J...