Currently the trail is clear, but will grow over quickly. No one is living in the red roofed hut. A golden lizard lives near by. An electric scooter is being purchased to access the land from the town below.
Creating a pallet raised bed has multiple objectives:
1. create an eco system for the future pond animals in the logs in the pallets
2. create hugelkultur raised beds for our backs getting older...
3. protect our young permaculturalists to explore the pond without our attention...
Just got over being ill for two weeks and now it is a rush to get things done here. My plants arrived two weeks early so I had to rush with getting the hugelkultur done on the North side of the house. The plants are being planted next to the hugelkultur so I had to get it finished. After finishin...
International Certified PDC - South India - December 2014
Next Christmas celebration is with Magic of Permaculture!Dates: 12 to 29 December 2014 – 17 DaysWithRico Zook & Narsanna KoppulaHead Teachers & FacilitatorsMartin and RomanCo Teachers & Facilitators:Guest Speakers and Lectu...
Good news about the forest garden! Peter sawed out the last sun-blocking non-fruit, non-nut trees, so now there are only multi-useful trees left. Mark is gathering the wood for our stove and mulching the small branches for the paths. And our newest volunteer Kenza, who studies landscape design, i...
Here is the video were you can see all the action ;)
This was an amazing experience...thank you all for the caring words of support ;)
The fields are opened to imagination
The week beginning 12th May Michal will be heading to our land to repair a hydram (water ram pump), do some final carpentry of a skeleton and if there is sufficient "flow of progress" June 2014 we shall be lifting-up the walls using a cob technology.
The material used in this compost heap included 1/4 a mixture of rabbit, goose, duck,and goat manure. 1/4 last year's fall yard clean up including leaves, spent garden plants, and sod. 1/4 honey locust seeds raked up from a local hotel yard. And 1/4 kitchen waste accumulated over the entire winte...
Good news about the forest garden: Peter sawed out the last sun-blocking non-fruit or nut trees, Mark is cleaning up the branches (& mulching them for the paths) and Kenza is helping us to finalize the design and specs for out forest garden!
Kenza is studying landscape design so we can combi...
Community Garden Installation at University of Maine Sustainability House
Orono, Maine – Volunteers from the University of Maine and surrounding communities are invited to participate in the creation of a community garden at UMaine's Terrell House Permaculture Living & Learning Center (PLLC)...
Home grown Happiness is teaching one of their courses in Quinta da Ravina, Benfeita, Portugal.Quinta da Ravina is the home of Nikki and Sean, where they live in their permaculture renovated stone quinta (farm). They own 2,5 hectares of organic gardens, forest and woodland and a happy stream with ...
We started the project of this farm in 2013. The zone 1 is now cultivated with synergic beds and some fruit trees (all different type and/or varieties). They are all ancient varieties, very tasty and resistant to pests.
Now we are working in zone 2, where we use to cultivate potatoes together w...
The farm we bought can almost be characterized as a jungle. It has a lot of poor quality rather young regrowth forest with some productive areas where a bunch of mango, banana and avocado trees are located. The view is magnificent, the atmosphere relaxing... We've settled in a bit now, ready to s...
