Ecovillage Key line design Rural sustainable farm for 5 families

Small backyard permaculture project - food forest and house

We are planning to do intercropping of Tapioca with Mung (moong) beans. Tapioca & Mung Beans grows well in this area. But, intercropping is tried for the first time in the local now. Tapiocal is a 1 year crop, the beans are just qtr year. I hope this will workout ;)

This year we harvested from our garden apples, raspberries, red currants, lettuce, various herbs, and from our greenhouse, peppers. Our greenhouse and coldframe is now in place and a waterbutt installed to harvest rainwater. We have decided to use a scythe (thanks Fruit Hill Farm) to keep grass...

Ecovillage Madagascar (www.ecovillagemadagascar.com) is a private project with different objectives: educational, search for solution to poverty and malnutrition issues, well being reconditionning center and more ...

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The Nomad Way in Bali Article about an individual Balinese local who, with compassion and determination created a whole organic farm in Ubud. This is direct prove of what one single person is capable of doing. You can only truly change others once you have changed yourself!  

Fenzhou is a small city by Chinese standards, just 1.5 million population near the coast of southern China. The flurry of a decade or so of rapid development is evident in the glass and concrete forests of tower blocks, many newly completed and still uninhabited and many more under constructi...

One heap of chicken manure + a little bit of compost ('planting pockets') + a few spare pumpkin plants + a good microclimate + a good summer + 4 months = 27 kg pumpkins Total work input c. 3 hrs. This was an experiment /a gamble but we were lucky to have had a good summer. Our p...

Implemented Swales, Keyline trenches, bird feeders, seed pots (Fukuoka), Modified Mandala Garden, and Silt trap. Using chop and drop method on 10 foot California Grass as mulch. Feel free to suggest anything else I could use =) Thanks. 14Nov13 Lost some of the berm so dug dipper and wider thanks...

We made 2 short and narrow swales and planted 5 fruit trees on each mound. Then we managed to start a mandala garden with a banana circle in the middle and 3 keyholes. Quite hard job as this soil is pure clay!! I planted some ground cover and legumes to prepare the ground for next time! In spit...

1 1/2 acre, off the grid beach/jungle environment, on the beautiful Colon island, Panama. Family run permaculture project that only just started!

PDC Plus is a 72hr 'Permaculture Design Certification Course' for beginners. Will be accompanied with a participating 'flying team' of practitioners who already hold permaculture certifications. One-third of all the raised funds will be used towards creating a 'Social Business' involving local vi...

La Juanita Finca Verde is a rural transformation platform. Through balanced relationships with our natural and cultural environments we are generating wellbeing at this and other Colombian regions.

Wald-Wasser-Garten Einjoch, ein Biotop für Menschen, Pflanzen und Tiere

Hands on learning while 'creating a useful design' benefiting an underprivileged village community towards sustainable life of Kottakarai transition village. PDC Plus is a 72hr 'Permaculture Design Certification Course' for beginners. Will be accompanied with a participating 'flying team'...

Five acre permaculture property, organic market garden and C.S.A box scheme.

Check out a bit of what we did at PRI Sunshine Coast for 10 weeks during the internship I finished in September.  Follow the link below to see the PRI Sunshine Coast Maungaraeeda update. Amongst other pictures of me, in one I'm hugging the kid called Phinton, before he started headbutting everyt...