The poly cultures visible in these pictures are elderberry, wild grape, earth chestnut, goumi, comfrey, feverfew, walking onion. garlic chives     Elderberry, chicory, walking onion, comfrey, fava bean, multiplier onion, shilver shield sorrel, yarrow, strawberry, garlic chives ( not visible, b...

Permaculture Farm Pomyana occupies 2 hectares. We grow traditional local crops (gladly exchange the seeds), and we have animals. The farm is located in a historic place, close to the castle of the 13th century. Around the forests, fields and marshes. Also we collect ethnographic information, tra...

PRI/USA is proud to announce the publication of Sustainable Revolution by Juliana Birnbaum and Louis Fox. In 2009 PRI/USA supported Birnbaum and Fox by becoming their fiscal agent as they collected funds for the production of their new book and began to travel the world searching for Perm...

Pierce Cedar Creek PDC Blog May 6 - 13, 2014 Pierce Cedar Creek Institute - Hastings, MI I am very much looking forward to teaching this upcoming PDC with fellow permaculture designers/farmers, Josh and Brian Shultz. Both are Midwest Permaculture PDC Graduates but had been doing advanced per...

Community volunteers will grow produce at eight sites in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The harvest will be donated to the Good Shepherd and other food banks. Also, teaching will be held on-site.

Join us and build a 10 foot dome that will serve as housing in our new village. Superadobe is a dome building technique which utilizes tubular, woven polypropylene bags and barbed wire. It was popularized by architect Nader Khalili at the Cal-Earth institute in Hesperia, California. The buildings...

Educational project focused on spreading knowledge about permaculture and sustainability. Working either on the fieldwork or the classroom, we help communities out to sustain their project by giving assistance and by working together, teaching them during practice.

The Curtain Drain Since the last update, the barn was built.  It was delayed a few months due to unfortunate circumstances (our contractor suffered a small stroke but has fully recovered). With the delay we were unable to get our cover crops sown around the zone 1 area before the temperatures ...

Trasition Town Project "Covilhã em transição" Helping the community to create resilience.

In this 14 days workshop you participate in practical sessions that  includes general cordwood information, presentations and discussions of the various styles of cordwood houses and the material usage. We offer practical sessions that include instructor demonstrations and individually supervise...

First season saw an almost embarassing flush of abundance.

This project intends to transform a 10-acre sandbox into an "Island of Green" in the desert.

This small backyard sported 150+ varieties of rose, lawn, and a very small, raised veggie box. Slate was almost completely wiped clean. Soil was a lovely mosaic or horrible clay, in parts two feet of sand atop horrible clay...other patches were much more workable, but not good. Anyhow....after th...

three infiltration basins, one SLIGHT diversion swale, one contour swale. Basins catch runnoff, one downsput feeds into largest directly, and one captures some runoff from the driveway.

No water lost!!

This residential front yard was once a typical front lawn in urban Carmichael, California. I was burned to a crisp by an unknown passerby. The owner wanted a drought tolerant, native chaparral mimic. Some plants have been installed, but install is not yet complete.

Three years in.