Every summer for the past several years I have had the joy of traveling in western Canada. While I was there 2012 I spoke a lot with my friends about Permaculture as I was in the process of completing my PDC. This winter they asked me of I would teach a day of both PC and Keyline design, when I ...

The REALeyes project is our attempt to reconcile my consumptive habits with an awareness of the ecosystems upon which we depend and how they relate. It is developing into a 10 acre permaculture farm and education site with the goal of not only being self-reliant, but also to provide healing for t...

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Ste. Anne de Bellevue Permaculture Group 2nd Meeting, Oct 1st, 2013, 1:30pm, Coop du Grand OrmeMINUTES Permaculture definition by Bill Mollison: The conscious design of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity needed to match the resilience of natural ecosystems. Resili...

Just completed the ten-week internship at the Permaculture research institute Australia With Geoff Lawton. I'm so excited about my journey and the journey of my fellow interns. I'll be posting an article about my final project very soon. After we left the farm some interns and I and my partner w...

It has been an amazing challenge to capture this fizzing foment of ideas on virtual paper for the design assessment.  I failed to do it to my own satisfaction, having underestimated the task and run out of time.  Here's hoping my undisciplined and gappy first draft will be enough to show a grasp ...

"Sustainable Humane Earth" Permaculture and Sustainable Design in Austin Tx   Bringing Permaculture Design Principals to "Austin Aquaponics," a fully functional small commercial Aquaponics operation.  Through a partnership with our nonprofit platform Sustainable Humane Earth, Austin Aqauponics ...

Last autumn 2012 I got busy making models of a bamboo dome I wished to make. There is a plethora of information and ideas out there on many types of domes, joints and materials. Moso chiku grows abundantly here and I thought why not use it to advantage in gardening. We have abundant wildlife and ...

The High Nature Centre is a low impact rural enterprise located within the living working landscape of the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Centre promotes the protection and preservation of the natural landscape and all those who live and work within it. We Provide: - Un...

I have not yet received my certificate from my Geoff Lawton online course, but I am verified as having been taught...how about that?!  Now to work on some more designs...including workshops! Workshop #1:  "Composting Your Money for Future Gains" in process...  

I returned to Australia late August 2013, after a 6 month stint in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, which is somewhat like a second home to me now. In 2011 and 2012, I had the privilege of working on a documentary about 11 young people from around the world at the invitation of Dr Willie Smits...

Family Farm in transition to Permaculture Farm. Permaculture Design as the exercise for the Geoff Lawton's Online PDC.

2 acre lot in the hills of Nova Lima will birth our family into independence and grounded life. Mud and go! We've been harvesting natural materials and collecting construction waste to build our way out of the city.

The heart of the East Feast 2022 vision is to create Austin's first public food forest in Festival Beach Park. It will be the Festival Beach Food Forest.

Our spring project is getting the remaining tunnel house (there were once two) back into commission. We've analysed how damage occurred and planned remedial action. - replacing 6 damaged posts. - wiring around the top of all posts to prevent splitting. - putting two longitudinal braces to ho...

The university's strudents who desinged and built the machine finished it last week, so now we will begin the contruction phase of the external access roads. We do  not have appropriate access to the land where the Permaculture Training Center will be built, so this is a major goal.