Martin Roberts will talk about beekeeping in general, hive components, setting up a hive in a residential backyard and products obtained from bees.   Martin moved from Sydney to Somersby in 1986 and lives on 1 acre. He's been keeping bees for 20 years. He has nine hives and drinks all the Mead...

This is a small CSA, designed to be a hodge podge of experimental beds, techniques, etc. I'm enticing local people/families into loving to grow their own food and finding out what works best on this land. Now annual, eventually perennial as herbs, roots, vines, bushes and fruit trees replace ...

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We've got plants coming in, and the machines are doing their stuff.  Time to get this show on the road I say.

This 6 foot wide swale will hold water high up on the property and hydrate/fertilize the field where we'll grow our vegetables.  We'll also get some good fruit from it in due time.

While things have been developing along nicely at the farm site of Mudlark Permaculture, I have been working on a few new things in my life, for instance , a new life! Doing my PDC did lead me to a Permaculture divorce, and I headed off to my new farm with a new outlook on life, to develop a De...

Plants so far: Aloe Vera Anatto Avocado: Lula & Fuerte Bananas:Raja Puri & Ice Cream & Red Dwarf & Praying Hands & Pisang Ceylon & Kandrian Barbados cherry, Acerola Cherry Bay Leaf Bay Rum - Lemon Randia formosa : Blackberry Jam Fruit Blackberry Natchez & Ouac...

Planting a food forest

I will be teaching an Introduction to Permaculture course with Eren Toydemir on January the 11th-12th, 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey. The course will consist of 2 days, 8 sessions of 1.5 hrs on a Saturday and Sunday between 10:00-18:00.  The course will include the basic and foremost knowledge about...

Permaculture Central Coast is the local permaculture group on the NSW Central Coast in Australia

Last year we started with the construction of a round Strawbale-Building, wich sould be used as a multifunctional beehut. This year in June we will follow up with the plastering work, this work needs again plenty of helping hands.

Plastering round Strawbale-Building at Wald-Wasser-Garten Einjoch / Eggendorf im Traunkreis / Upper-Austria Last year we started with the construction of a round Strawbale-Building, wich sould be used as a multifunctional beehut. This year in June we will follow up with the plastering work...

Location : Les Jardins de Courances Courances 91490 (15 km from Fontainebleau, northwest of the forest edge), Essonne, France. Price: The price, including tuition fees, full board and camping, is € 1,250 (€ 1,150 before May 31) Courses in French and English (with simultaneous translation...

A day way above our expectations. Six people were able to come. We begun the day by visiting the plot: observing the land shape, the cultived and wild plants, the type of soils... The plot is L-shaped with long slopind part and a smaller flat part, about one hectare big. Then we start desig...

In 2013, Guy starts a new initiative with Marc Zischka: PermaSpère, a website offering Permaculture training and services. Their idea is to professionalise Permaculture in France and to make the courses of some of the best international teachers available for a french audience. They are currently...

Stinging nettle is one perennial plant we have more than enough of on our smallholding. It likes damp soil - a constant in the West of Ireland - and elevated levels of phosphate and nitrogen which it finds in and around livestock paddocks and wherever significant amounts of nutrients accumulate s...

     

We have constructed 4 new building with natural building techniques and natural materials such as adobe, wood and stones. We generate all our electricity from the sun & the wind. We have constructed a pond and all water collected from the roofs & grey water from the buildings get filter...