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5th Monthly Meeting for our Local Group

Freya Mackenzie
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...
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4th Meeting for "Permaculture Ste Anne de Bellevue"

Freya Mackenzie
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...
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3rd Permaculture Meeting Featuring our First Guest Speaker

Freya Mackenzie
 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...
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Bunya Pine

Byron Joel
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 ...
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Chickens video

João Gonçalves
The first video of our chicken story ... more news soon!   
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Community Garden De Groene Hemel

Birgit Albertsmeier
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
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Terrace building resources

Neil Bertrando
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...
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Grading-mulching Aug 2010

Jesse Labbe-Watson
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...

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Pineywoods Permaculture

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

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

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Casa SustentaTesta

Casa SustentaTesta
Future Permaculture Educational & Demonstration House
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The Edible Forest

The Edible Forest
Our Edible Forest is a 56Ha (140 acre) demonstration permaculture/holistic management farm 10 minutes out of Wingham, NSW.
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PDC in the Greening the Desert Project April 2014

Salah Hammad
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...
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hybrid poplar info

Neil Bertrando
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...
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update on life at permaliving house.

Sean Mahoney
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...
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Cover crops Sept 2010

Jesse Labbe-Watson
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...

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Terraces August 2010

Jesse Labbe-Watson
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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Green River Lodge

Green River Lodge
Using permaculture principals to nurture our land and community to a vibrant and sustainable future.
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