The Valley of the mists, is a permaculture homestead, designed from the ground up and managed in accordance with permaculture principles. We implement and develop efficient and productive ecosystems supporting people's lives and regenerating the natural environment. To share our experience - ...

I've been plugging away on this for a few months now, and finally arrived at something that may be useful to others. Ethics, Domains, and Principles are each on separate layers so can be printed out and then rotated individually and used as a teaching tool / for exploration by students to match ...

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Together with my Indian friend Satyendra Gunjar we created the project: Pharming, Meditation and Sustainable Tourism and Agriculture. see on the link. In 2018 Satyendra Gunjar and Jan Keppel Hesselink met in Puna, India, during a long meditation retreat Jan attended. During some months Jan and S...

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In this month we renewed our road to the land, and in 1-2 weeks we will put container home to the land. As seen in the pictures, the base is contructed with ready-made concrete blocks, so they may relocate to any other place. The base height is more that 1 m, so the area at the bottom of the cont...

In this month we renewed our road to the land, and in 1-2 weeks we will put container home to the land. As seen in the pictures, the base is contructed with ready-made concrete blocks, so they may relocate to any other place. The base height is more that 1 m, so the area at the bottom of the cont...

Homesteading Project in the Mediterranean climate of Greece.

A Permavillage is defined by a simple equation : Permavillage = Village + Permaculture As permaculture was defined by Bill Mollison as permanent agriculture, a Permavillage is permanent as well. Of course nowadays we would rather say 'sustainable'. How can a permavillage be sustainable? Given...

A collaborative urban farm in Montpellier

Following the PDC in September, we had the Natural Building Course, with some in-depth class, and some hands-on practical, as well as scaling up our Kombucha production. Lots to get to grips with in terms of course content as I learn the ropes as a teacher under Neil's guidance. Scheduling for ...

As of yesterday, I published an e-book called "Regenerative Aid"; the premise of the publication is to provide a synopsis of the entirety of permaculture as well as have it be translated into any language necessary so it can then be distributed for free to places in need. The extremely condensed...

This project involves the development of a high efficiency integrated method of food production that is diverse environmentally and economically.

https://midwestpermaculture.com/2019/07/permaculture-work-traders-finish-earthshelter/ We are making slow and steady progress on our project. This summer our work-traders finished our first earth-shelter cabin. We have had several students rent the cabin while taking their permaculture course wi...

Enormemente orgulloso de poder contarte que hemos logrado la nada despreciable cifra de 60 Bosques de Alimentos en nuestra Red Ibérica.  También hemos iniciado nuevas actividades encaminadas a tanto empresas como particulares pueden plantar sus propios "Árboles con apellido" en las fincas pert...

In April 2019 Katja Staring and I have published a book about Adventurous gardening (Avontuurlijk Tuinineren in Dutch) to share the way of gardening in the permaculture way for the bigger public. Taking small steps in every garden and making people aware of the ways of nature around them. Our goa...

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