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Permaculture Teacher Training Course

John Champagne
Come and join us at Maemut Garden , 70kms southwest of Chiang  Mai for a 5 day intensive Permaculture Teacher Training Course. John and Sharon Champagne will be building on your basic PDC to take you to the point of being able to teach a course in your own style. For furhter details go to our we...

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Earthworks

Leo Ziebol
3 days of earhtworks in late April, 2014.  Two equipment operators and myself. One small excavator and one skid loader.   Maintaining access to the higher parts of the property was a chalenge but was acheived with the use of 8" culvert in areas where road access was necessary.   Our soil is ver...

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Windbreak hedgerow

Leo Ziebol
White Pine-Long term conifer Hybrid Poplar-Fast growing tree for soil improvment and short term shelter.  Will succeed out after 3-5 years once long term trees are established and larger. Red Alder and Sea Buckthorn-Nitrogen fixers and food production (sea berries) American Chestnut-Long term ...

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Swale edge extension

Leo Ziebol
1. Layer of soaked cardboard for grass suppresion and moisture retention 2. Layer of cleanout from horse lot.  Rotted manure and hay for fertilitiy enhancement and soil development. 3. Layer of wood mulch for moisture retention and fungal encouragement.

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Many beds ready to be planted

Gregory Amos
Below are the pictures of the garden. First we design it with the walking paths. Above all paths we will put a kind of treillis, in order to create a big pergola to shade our visitors (the tropical sun is hot).

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Demonstration garden for the dry tropic...

Demonstration garden for the dry tropics in the highlands of Nicaragua
A demonstration garden featuring several types of beds and watering systems, plants and fruit trees adapted to dry climates, perennials or annuals, as well as composting techniques.
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Earthworks part 1

Leo Ziebol
1600 feet of swale and a holding pond

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Rancho Relaxo

Rancho Relaxo
Permaculture Farm and Homestead
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OrchardyHaven

OrchardyHaven
We bought the property in September 2011 and we're planning to move there in the Spring of 2015. Very excited about future possibilities and looking forward to working with neighbours and visitors from near and far.
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establishing the ''home beds''

Lizzy Smith
early food and herb plantings relied on placement around the house as the final pathway paving was decided through observation of use, need for stabilisation and visibility to termite activity around our wooden house reliant on termite mesh.   strategies included planting edibles in pots, tempo...

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Hananiah's Rest Ranch

Hananiah's Rest Ranch
Hananiah's Rest Ranch is shooting for a target of abundance that speaks volumes about the source of all abundance. We are proposing to take 80 acres of impoverished land with no utilites and steward it into utter abundance.
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urban recovery - early years summer drought to storm water management

Lizzy Smith
The courtyard area near the front entry to the house (on the southern side) was regularly inundated by summer torrential downpour. This was only realised after the drought started to break well after the build was completed.  in hindsight our observation of the land before the build identified ru...

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Farm of Eden Project

Farm of Eden Project
Rewilding our landbases, rewilding humanity.
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Urban acre - recovering from building a...

Urban acre - recovering from building and first design
The project was about recovering a site after a house build and shaping the first design towards applying permaculture principles in a cold temperate climate during a drought period.
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Aerobic composting - finished product

Richard Larson
The winter accumulation of kitchen scraps, plus exotic material as honey locust beans, turned out excellent mineral-rich compost material!
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Bio-Permakultur Steinrieglhäusl

Bio-Permakultur Steinrieglhäusl
A mini organic farm as a permaculture project in Lower Austria.
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I Hold Space for Transformation and Cultivate Inspiration

Loretta Buckner
Designing Educational Ecosystems Photos   "Use and Value Diversity" Blog post following the course:   ‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ There is no such thing as a monoculture in nature.  Nowhere on earth, except in places where man has intervened, will you find a single species which i...

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