Permaculture Ste Anne de Bellevue Meeting no 5, January 7th, 2014 The New Coop du Grande Orme Attendance: 5   MINUTES We mainly discussed the details of the first special event we are holding: a co-presentation with the Coop of a very special guest speaker: Philippe Derruder "le grand spéci...

Permaculture Ste Anne de Bellevue Minutes: Meeting no. 4, Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 The New Coop du Grand OrmeAttendance: 5 (With Town Councillor Ryan Young appearing for a fly-by Q&A on Ste Anne de Bellevue's Sustainable Development Plan) Discussion:- The humble beginning of a Permacult...

 Ste Anne de Bellevue Permaculture 3rd Meeting, Nov 5th, 2013, 1pm, private home in Ste Anne de Bellevue. Attendance: 3Although no one officially took minutes this time, a few things that stood out for me were the challenges of suburban agriculture (the ethos of materialism, isolation...

Of all the striking aspects of the subtropical regions of Australia’s east coast, the landforms, the climate, the exotic fauna… few offer as immediately impressive a sight as a fully mature Bunya pine. Reaching a recorded height of 45m, with trunks like a sauropod’s leg and sporting cones bigger ...

The first video of our chicken story ... more news soon!   

Have a look on the facebook-page of community garden De Groene Hemel for the look and feel of our project. https://www.facebook.com/pages/De-groene-hemel-Waalre/1426936710868063

This was originally a response to a request for terrace building info In general for construction, earthworks and other technical information require detailed calculations, specs, design parameters, etc.  I refer to FAO, NRCS, engineering, and construction references.  you might also con...

The quackgrass (Agropyron repens) is the first plant to rebound.  I took a calculated risk and decided to leave it in the landscape to help with slope stabilization.  I considered an application of herbicide to kill it, since it is about the most dominant plant in the landscape.  I decided to lea...

Pineywoods Permaculture is located on a 150 acre farm & ranch in the Pineywoods Eco-Region of East Texas.

  I started growing some easy-tropical varieties such as Chia and Papaya. 

Future Permaculture Educational & Demonstration House

Our Edible Forest is a 56Ha (140 acre) demonstration permaculture/holistic management farm 10 minutes out of Wingham, NSW.

Starts Apr 19, 2014 and runs for 13 day(s). This PDC follows the standard accredited 72-hour design course syllabus with running translation into Arabic. All written materials will also be translated. The course covers in detail the ecological basis of Permaculture design, the ethics, th...

in response to a query from a collegue: here's a little on what I have,  will be great to talk with you sometime soon.  I can relay some more anecdotes then.Where I am, my trials have used all columnar varieties to fit them into spacings for time stacking and initial wind protection then the...

Well we are finally getting settled into the house here at permaliving house and projects will be forthcoming for the new year. among those will be a class on rocket mass heaters taught with Christopher Milton Dixon , some earth works (swales put in and hugelkulture beds put in) and several other...

Grading is finished here, many paths are mulched, seed is starting to sprout, and the swing set is relocated.  The higher terraces were seeded to oats and a forage mix of alfalfa, alsike clover, red clover and timothy grass. The green manure till schedule will begin in 2011. I will till in t...

The implementation of the project began in earnest with an earthworks project to construct terraces on the SE facing hillside.  Austrian permaculture farmer Sepp Holzer was very inspirational to me with this construction project. At first the slope was the primary design challenge. After wa...

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