The garden members of this young garden are still at it strong and their hard work is paying off.  This spring they significantly increased the size of their annual growing area (both in raised beds and directly in the ground) and their irrigation system development tries to keep pace with the ne...

This year is surely shaping up to be a promising one!  We are pleased to have Hailee and Seth again, our two 2012 garden managers, for 2013.  We are nearing completion of our 2nd substantial greenhouse (a 20 ft by 60 ft gothic arched one), are building a permanent chicken coop, a tool shed, and m...

Forest garden project in a 1 acre rural land in Brittany.

http://rodmellfoodforest.wordpress.com/

site visit for a permanent installation in a sensory garden in the meantime, the project at http://bit.ly/Zuv0FB is paying off as if winter never happened, we are still harvesting curled cabbage (boerenkool) and new shoots of chives and parsley, this means spring vegetable consommé and...

Suburban Demonstration and Education site for learning Permaculture, Natural Living, and Healing.

i could not upload the video so im putting link to video..   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHCeleDx45Q  

Join us in The Bamboo Garden for a FREE tour around our own little piece of permaculture, for International Permaculture Day, May 5 2013. Contact us here to book a visit, or to find out more about what we do.

Have you ever wondered about waste disposal in the tropics or the potential of "humanure"? Why not read about the construction of Eco Ola's own composting toilet! Unparalleled views and outstanding poohs for the environment! You can learn more in Rick Pickett's blog below entitled: "Building a Du...

Earth Art -- one week intensive natural building and beautification course This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands on experience in natural building techniques with the added bonus of letting your creativity and imagination run wild as you create art from the earth. This one week u...

ManKind Project - New Warrior TrainingApril 2013 Shawnigan Lake BC, Canada

We have been using cardboard and wheat straw to sheet mulch areas that once required mowing to reduce the amount of mowing. This area on the west side of the inn has a swale with cornelian cherries, comfrey, aronias, serviceberries goji and goumi berries on the berm. The trees on the upward side ...

Spring is here at Cedar House Inn and our permaculture site is showing signs of life after a winter slumber. Currants are blooming as well as serviceberries. Comfrey is coming up out of the permaculture swale berms and other berries and fruits are leafing out. Bees are busy pollinating. Start the...

 We finally start the project on a piece of land of about 1 hectare, planted with olive trees. Most of the trees are old and they suffered graetly from drought. As a matter of fact the land is regurlarly ploughed with no cover plants. However it's a good piece of land (as there is no bad land...

Late last night i was inspired to make a sign of what best describes our place and this is what i came up with. 14-4-2013

The farm is just in its first stages of development, but we were able to come up with the materials to put together an herb spiral! It was a great learning experience for our two volunteers Brook and John who had not heard of permaculture before their arrival. We were sure to inform them that per...

We love a camp fire, Autumn is my favorite time of the year because the fire restrictions have lifted and we can have an out door fire once again.