Hello,   We are happy to share with you that we are starting the self-building of our second small house with straw bales.   We are looking for strong, responsible and athletic persons, who would like to help us in exchange of learning from our experiences, in the spirit our "Welcome Charter...

My girlfriend and I love mangoes. The good thing is we can get them here, cheap and tasty. The bad thing is we can get them only between March and May. So we decided to build a solar dryer with PVC pipes and Cellophane. Easy, cheap, quick and resistent. There is some mesh to let the air flow. We ...

We have bought the farm we selected after visiting numerous places around here. This one stuck out, it has a great topography for this area, with steep mountain slopes and semi flat areas, it has numerous options to capture water, it has been neglected for years so we can show the 'before and aft...

After our successful PDC last november we offer the course again, Kirsty, Antonio, Jeff, Patricia & invited teachers/practitionersGeneral info on http://www.culturadelatierra.net

One of the models for the Al Baydha Project's agricultural system is a 2000 year old food forest in Morocco that is awash in date palms, olives, citrus, bananas, and other verdant fruiting trees.  Date palms are an enormous part of the heritage of Saudi Arabia, provide numerous benefits and funct...

I returned back to home, from Australia on March 30th, after completing 10-week internship program of PRI Australia. It was an amazing experience, full of knowledge, wisdom and wonderful people.

Eco Caminhos is beautiful farm near Nova Friburgo, 2,5 hours drive from Rio de Janeiro. We are currently building Cob houses and farming organically. Our goal is to self-sustains in food and energy. Houses will be made by natural materials. The Eco Farm generates income through Eco Turism. Eco...

Notes from SouthWoods Advanced Permaculture Series Thermal Mass and Insulation, Local Conditions Dictate the Function. Building strategies in changing climates vary based on the biomic tendencies of the region.  Cold or Hot regions also have sub regions of precipitation, wind, a...

For two summers running there was no 'planting rain' in this province.  Working as we do with communities who live on a knife edge, where food security is crucial, it has been very distressing to see the impact of low rainfall. I can't comment about before two years ago, apart from gleaning local...

Found a couple of squashed bunnies on the road and set up my first two maggot feeder trials. The theory is that the maggots wants to get away from the decomposing bunny and so drop down through holes made in the bottom of a suspended bucket that contains the bunny plus a bit of mulch above and be...

The Beach Farm is a project to extend an existing permaculture demonstration and education site onto a new land near a beach on Hong Kong Island.

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Permaculture in Serbia

November 2019 As a member of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature - GARN  and facilitator of the GARN Euro hub, I am planning to work on incorporating permaculture into the Rights of Nature movement as for me, permaculture is the practical expression of the respect of Nature's right to l...

After a week of introduction we've started our course today!

The majority of today’s traditional indigenous farmers are located far distances away from modern aids to farming. Small scale farming still takes nature into consideration, and contributes to the production of organic food today. Many indigenous farmers still practise customary techniques....