The home of The Awakened Life Project has been created from the ruins of the abandoned farm of Quinta da Mizarela, situated in a beautiful ecological reserve in the mountains of Central Portugal. The "Quinta", as it is affectionately known, is home to a vibrant evolutionary spiritual c...

Transform my garden into a permaculture self-sustaining one.

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Lots of progress this past year!  Water management is essental for the sustainable development of Terrafirma, as rains tend to be limited to the fall-spring period and have been rather irregular / unpredictable over the past years.  Summers are hot and very dry, so that all new and young plantat...

I am attaching some hand-drawn preliminary design sketches for comments.

Transforming Our Shiraz Vineyard to a Permaculture Demo and Education Site

We started! Sunday the 9th of February 2014 we started to work in the project area. With the help of a very precise GPS and with the georeferenced design of the main paths we have planted several sticks in the ground. We have also identified the position of the 2 future structures. All the 12 me...

Design of a resilient garden for a young association of Lugo (RA) called " The Pomegranate House" with several type of edible garden, Forest garden, windbreaks, ponds, etc...

So our garden is slowly moving ahead, with chickens, and a few fruit trees doing well, and keyhole beds, a herb spiral, a hugelkultur bed, a greywater reed bed and a food forest coming slowly to life... Other ideas always welcome!

Greening the desert project going greener and greener every day :) i cant more happy than that yaaaah. Nadia

I had the privilage of receiving PRI PDC Teacher Training from Geoff Lawton and Nadia Lawton, PRI Australia, at Zaytuna Farm, NSW, as a part of my 10-Week Internship.

The Guest House Arts Collective & Venue is a suburban intentional community of 7 musicians and artists who host frequent musical events and arts workshops. Most of us have ties to The Evergreen State College.

PDC – Curso de Design em Permacultura/Permaculture Design Course – Vale dos Coiços, PortugalQuando/When? 11-23 Junho/JuneOnde/Where? Vale dos Coiços, Aldeia Velha, Góis, Coimbra, Portugal!Quem/Who? Alfred Decker, Nuno Mamede e outros a confirmar/and others to be confirmed.Consulta toda a informaç...

http://www.ecodharma.com/courses-events/2014/07/05/permaculture-design-course   Permaculture offers practical skills and methods for designing and creating sustainable living systems, integrating human needs with the ecosystems in which we are rooted. It is a theory of ecological design w...

a group will be working on the project "Permadana" at Hvar during the carnival week, mostly developmental work will be undertaken, the camp will run for 5 days. 

What is it?The Volunteer Experience at Quinta do Vale da Lama is an opportunity to be involved in the project, discovering what we do and how we do it, bringing your contribution to it.The amount of incredible people that walk by every year is, in great part, responsible for the fast pace develop...

We are planning the "northern most" PDC course ever this year and want to make it accessible to as many people as possible so if you could help us by visit here We would be most greatful...   Polar Permaculture Solutions, AS

  DESIGNING FOR ABUNDANCE AND ADAPTABILITY- Two Week Intensive: March 24th- April 6th 2014 Course Topics Include: - Permaculture Ethics and Principles - Urban Design methods and strategies, Ecological Footprint, Urban Waste Cycles - Organic Food Production, Urban Farming, Large Animals and ...