A Permaculture and Self-Empowerment journey that will change your life! This sixteen day course combines all the elements of the internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certification curriculum with an infusion of empowerment techniques to unleash your full potential as the architect of yo...

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There are some blue butterflies and monkies on the 7ha finca.  

I just completed an excellent forest gardening / food forestry course with the Agroforestry Research Trust over three (what turned out to be a very sunny) days in Devon, UK. Taught by the man who (literally) wrote the book on temperate forest gardens; Martin Crawford, it was a fantastically info...

Species visible *and not*  include weeping mulberry, golden berry, gooseberry, black elderberry, seaberry, pineapple guava, tree tomato, chilean guava, various milkweeds, red clover, sugar cane, Jobs Tears, grapes along the fence * were there before and enhanced/trained* various other kales and g...

These are a few pictures of the first round of implementation. Initiall goals were COVER and build soil. Initailly, soil was deeply aerated with a broadfork ( tons of fun for a single worker), application of compost and various soil amendments, and seeding of a fast growing, trample tolerant, nit...

Initial site. Low species diversity and density. Horrible soils. Pockets of both wet, anarobic clay soils in part from neighbors sprinkler system, part exposed, dry,capped,  VERY low organic matter.

This is a small, urban front yard retofit for a home childcare center in Orangevale, California. Its purpose is to be not only productive, but educational to both children and parents.

The accepted practcie of having a lawn in a climate such as Los Angeles, CA is clearly irresponsible when realizing the lack of rainwater harvesting but is borderline insanity when one realizes the opportunity for food production in one of the most ideal climates on the planet.  Above without ...

In the spring of 2013, I became proudly member of an NGO based in Italy, called O.R.S.S.U involved in the promotion of conscious lifestyle: within its members it can offer any kind services, tuition and fair trades of selected organic products.The association is involved in technology transfer, b...

My personal input is not applied anymore in Payaka. Others will proceed somehow, all the best.

Members are invited to talk for 10-15 minutes on “Anything Permaculture”. There will be 4-6 scheduled short talks.

orn out of a desire to contribute to fixing a broken food system and eat healthier, Sean and Cheyenne have been building Root 'N Roost from the original 1 acre parcel Sean grew up on since November of 2010. Sean had just moved back home and Cheyenne came back to Sullivan County to intern at A...

trasforming a guesthouse and hemp clothing shop in an open house and urban permaculture vocational training center

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This will be my first permaculture land

Earn Your Permaculture Design Certificate at a Permaculture Based 2,000 Acre Family Farm with Integrating Grassfed Livestock, Dryland Orchard Farming and a 100 year old Heritage Olive Orchard in Northern California. Info on Design Course here Info on location here  

While digging our way up the hill, we began to hit an area that had previously had landscaping trees growing in it.  It hadn't seen the type of composting that the rest of the ground had, and was littered with thick clay chunks, dead roots and branches, and shredded wood.  It was also heavily com...