Muchos estamos en busca de soluciones para mejorar nuestro estilo de vida, buscamos consumir alimentos libres de tóxicos y vivir en entornos sin contaminación ni estrés. Exploramos alternativas diferentes a la agitada vida en la ciudad, y cuando vamos al campo encontramos un modelo de vida qu...

A CSA on the outskirts of Norwich in Postwick. 8 acres, 2 polytunnels, an irrigation pond. Sandy soil.

Ecovillage in Altay region. Siberia

Our one-acre Niagara property is a living permaculture lab featuring a food forest, organic gardens, hugelkultur beds, a greenhouse, passive-solar workshop, off-grid power, rainwater systems, and diverse composting methods. Over the years, it has transformed into a biodiverse oasis where nature c...

Sustainability center using permaculture design.

ReScape is a developing project site to provide education and hands-on learning experiences centered around the three core aspects of resilience; growing food, alternative energy and alternative building techniques.

From typical US suburban house and ornamental landscape to resource-efficient home and food forest.

The Natural Capital™ Plant Database is a repository of plant information for ecological design. Our partner designers have combined the best sources of plant research and documentation in order to provide the highest integrity for a wide variety of users.  Whether you are a first-time g...

Sunday October 26th saw the Southwest Florida Permaculture Guild come together for its third permablitz. It was held on a property that is "only" .33 acres. Considering we planted more than 50 food bearing trees and plants including a wide range of huge canopy trees including three avocados, two ...

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There has been a bit of action at the shipping container house lately, with the internal framing going in. Trying to find a good source of timber in Tasmania was suprisingy problematic. We were unable to source any second hand timber that met our requirements, and apparently the nearest eucalypt ...

We were a bit curious to see how the swale would go when there was a decent amount of rainfall on the site. We were quite happy with the result. One of the spillways was slightly higher than the other, and one has a slight low point in it, but overall things look quite good. The lower spill...

Windows and a large sliding door were put into the container house. It has also received a bit of rain since the last photos, hence the colour change.   The two bedroom windows (closest) and the large living room sliding door windows fitted. One to go in the bathroom. And the finished prod...

We have created a floorplan for the shipping container house. This is the image we were going to provide to our builder mate so he could commence installing the internal walls. It may change a little bit, but here is what we are thinking at the moment. It will have a bedroom on the west side s...

We will eventually be building a house on the property. In the meantime, we decided to put in a shipping container dwelling. This will use existing resources and give us somewhere warm and dry. Here are the footings that the container will be sitting on. They are made from steel that we bought f...