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...

2013 / 2014 Course Schedule If you are interested in learning about permaculture in a classroom setting, sign up for one of our courses. Listed below are our courses for late 2013 - early 2014. You can also volunteer with us. Check our website for specific volunteer dates.   Course Perma...

Any one who has owned a labrador would be aware of their insatiable drive for food along with cuddles and affection ... currently if Jake (the labrador) thinks the chooks are getting a reasonable bounty of fresh scraps (he loves vegetables particularly carrots and broccoli stems) he’ll decide...

The main purpose of the lodge is to enable guests to experience traditional maasai life with all its cultural and social aspects, feel the strength of african nature, learn about new ways of soustainable development and help the maasai community to have additional income for their projects.

Backyard permaculture on the Alaskan coast

  2-Week Intensive PDC at The Yoga Forest, San Marcos la Laguna, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. November 18 -30, 2013 You will be a certified Permaculture designer, a certification that is internationally recognized by the permaculture community. You will also have the knowledge and practical sk...

A year ago a freak storm with hail stones the size of golf balls smashed the young sharon fruit tree in our garden and we lost 90% of the harvest. We'd only just moved into the cottage and this poor little tree had received almost no care for years; the previous tenants were not gardeners at all....

Date: October 7th to 19th Factsheet with more information available soon.

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

Mudlark Urban is our new home on 2000sq mts. We will be developing the site as an Urban Permaculture Demonstration site with the intention to teach Permaculture and to empower our community into a future of low energy living.

This project objectves are the restauration of family land/house in Aguemoon/Taourirt-Igil (Bejaia) Algeria by introducing natural materials and bio cultures with integration of renewable energy.

  It past two yars since I took my PRI PDC with Jeff and Bill in Istanbul, and they were right, permaculture is a virus.This infection meakes you wanna keep going and keep doing. So finally after two years of excesirse and experinmenting in my home garden design started to look like is going...

come and visit us for a monthly 3 day Permaculture Intro Workshop in Sapney Farm.   www.healthesoilcsa.org/

It's Fair Food Week and we would like to invite you to join us at the Randwick Sustainability Hub for a screening of Fresh - the movie, a documentary film about the GOOD FOOD movement.  Before the screening of the film, you're welcome to join us for an pizza, salad and fruit from local growers (...

Making it happen is what we'll explore together at SEEDING OUR FOOD FUTURE. It's a coming together of all of us who want a better food future... it's a gathering to explore what it is that would create that food future that we want. This is a participatory event. We'll circulate around conversat...

Canadian born Kenton Zerbin, has been selected to be CPRI's PDC Teacher. We are very pleased to have Kenton on the team and we feel he will fulfill his role, with much enthusiasm and professionalism. Kenton completed his PRI Internship at Zaytuna Farm and not only does he display a passion for al...

I have 60 different types of decidouose tree on my property and 20 conifers. The majority of the decidouose tree are Cottonwoods. I also have 2 black walnut, 4 apple, 2 plum, 1 cherry and 1 mulberry tree.. Most of my acreage is grass, I have 3 rubarb plants that are seeding this year and asparagu...

Barrett House is a sustainable demonstration project that follows the permaculture design principles both inside and out - often showing two or three different approaches to retrofitting for sustainability to suit every size and shape of house and of course every budget - all to help you make you...