In a beautiful place in the mounts near Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais estate, Brasil, lies a great oportunity to gather up people willing to form up a kilombo in the Mata Atlântica and develop a demonstration farm. More updates will be on soon, when the details are more solid. For now,...

Introduction: A few years ago, a few of us—ecology, economics, and business graduates—founded a non-profit organization called Third Millennium Alliance (TMA). We raised some money and bought a lot of land in a critically endangered rainforest and established an ecological reserve in coastal...

Nodo de permacultura construyendo sustentabilidad en colectivo.

Jiwa Damai encourages a combination of theory and hands on practice in a supportive environment as an important approach to learning and growing. Our internships offer the possibility to design and actualize a project, either as a group or on an individual basis. Our interns receive expert suppor...

We have a permaculture garden practicing sustainable biological gardening based on EM (effective microorganism) technologies. One focus is to preserve rare species of indigenous plants, another to harvest coconuts and use local traditional methods to produce a pure virgin oil. One area contains a...

I was clearing the compound and cut down a pawpaw tree and chopped it up and threw it on one of my six compost heaps.  With a few weeks the pile that I threw it on to lost 2/3 of its height suddenly, becoming humus material- while the other 5 were sill a meter and a half tall and with recognizabl...

The secret to this method is to plow along the contours of the hill in ONE direction, and to throw the soil downhill- that means plowing left to right when facing uphill.  The plow is dragged on its side to the starting position each time.  The first plowing forms a sill that catches the second, ...

Residential yard conversion, main work implemented in spring of 2013, sheet mulching with annuals and perennials. Demonstration project for neighborhood, empowering renter to take action, providing significant experiential learning for 10 plus local youth.

This is a site of bare land that will be built up on permaculture and self sufficiency plans. Year round green houses will be eventually built in the hopes of a farm co-op for locals.

The Little Garden is a small project to help bring the awareness of non toxic gardening, the value of heritage plants and the awareness of permaculture to the community.

A food forest amidst the re-forested lands of an old housing project

Rabbitry with food and feed garden in informal settlement in Nairobi, occupying 12.6m x 4m plot.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aUhghsCiG8

I just recently started a 8 month long course to become an ORGANIC FOOD SPECIALIST at FORUM Berlin... and ... I am not alone anymore! my partner is working on building e-trikes and windturbines made out of old household goods and scrap. more news will be published here...

http://www.ridgedalepermaculture.com/1/post/2013/12/part-2-keyline-design-in-cold-climate-sweden.html

http://www.ridgedalepermaculture.com/1/post/2013/12/part-2-keyline-design-in-cold-climate-sweden.html

In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built - they're grown.   The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree. This tree produces a series of secondary roots from higher up its trunk and can comfor...