An urban neighborhood gardening project with personal plots and food bank plots. I was involved with the construction and ongoing maintenance as well as work on the community plots to support North End food banks.

At The Farm School, permaculture is woven into the very fabric of the schools underlying philosophy where "personal, community and planetary wellbeing" are the focus of it's curriculum.

Slow. Immense. Intimidating. The wave loomed, a ripple in the pond we call an ocean, but a threat to the speck of a human on that ponds surface. Kenton didn’t even bother to wipe the rain from his eyes. The rain never stopped. It peppered the oceans surface as far as the eye could see. It would...

As I find myself in an apartment in NYC I decided to trial the bokashi composting systems. A system designed for indoors where space and waste management opportunities are limited. It also eliminates the need to separate your food waste and eliminates unpleasant odors. Basically microorganisms in...

Week three has been a serious shift in activities. The intense physical work of last weeks activities has been replaced with the exciting pursuit of knew Permaculture knowledge. Four volunteers, myself included, and fifteen others are participating in the Permaculture Design Course (PDC). The PDC...

Debates about CSG (Coal Seam Gas) mining are ongoing. There is talk about highly polluted human manure polluting water with oestrogens, prozac and other hormones, drugs and pollutants. Our waste keeps piling up and our energy sources keep depleting. We have to face the fact that as long as consu...

Please forgive my particulated rhetoric, this has been a full on four weeks 'embedded' in the black side of an invisible struggle. First seek to understand. The first principle in aid project managment is land security. The mind blowing wrongness of well-intentioned government managers in regard...

This project involves youth in transition to adulthood and community partners working together to address issues of sustainability and care of the earth. We are currently developing a native tree farm in East Texas in conjunction with a food forest and garden.





This would be a wildlife photographer's dream. Set up camp and watch. This camp set in a bowl of jungle, and looks out toward the ocean. Big birds hang glide on the updrafts from the ocean.

Date: October 7th to 19th Factsheet with more information here. Take a look.

The ultimate way to stop deer and other animals damaging your fruit trees. At St Andrews we have a whole gamut of animals that attacked the new orchard. Kangaroos, Wallabies, possums, rabbits, wombats and more recently deer. Initially I began by surrounding each tree with wire mesh, but some...



Date: September 29th to October 4th To see the factsheet of this course, please click here. Registrations are open. Contact us ([email protected])

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Off the grid straw bale house with garden and chickens.

Pollinating some fruit trees can be a problem. One trick I have used since the early 1980s is to spray the blossom with a weak solution of sugar and water -  bees tend to like to work a single source and once the word gets out that a certain tree or trees are on fire the little insects do the...