I cannot believe how hard my ground gets after just one planting season. Although my desert soil has improved dramatically in the 5 years since I've been applying permaculture principles, I still have a hard time keeping enough organic matter in the soil and my (originally) heavy clay dirt start...

We developed a relationship with two local community organizations for the development of a local, community owned, rural tourism paths. The project is in the legalization process to create an NGO whose purpose will be the development of community trails in a period of two years with the goal...

Tom had to re-do some fencing and clear the site for the bio-digester. He calculated that with the amount of manure we are getting (around 30kg per day), we need a 5 cubic metre bio-digester, which will give us around 1 1/2 cubic metres of gas per day.  Outlines of the bio-digester Lead up time...

in january 2013 i visited the northern arier of pakistan // hunza valley. the ngo organization KADO kadohunza.org invidet me to come, see the valley, talk with the farmers, and look where we can build up two permaculture demonstration farms. One in Upper Hunza at 3.000 above sealevel, a other far...

What is Panarchy?  Panarchy is a conceptual framework to account for the dual, and seemingly contradictory, characteristics of all complex systems – stability and change. It is the study of how economic growth and human development depend on ecosystems and institutions, and how they i...

The Forming – Storming – Norming – Performing model of group development was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965, who maintained that these phases are all necessary and inevitable in order for the team to grow, to face up to challenges, to tackle problems, to find solutions, to plan work,...

Six acres of the Lincolnshire Marsh - increasing biodiversity floral and faunal.

Today my mother (Julie) continued to remove weeds that have sprung up in the paths thanks to the abundance of spring rain we had this year. Weeds truly do like to grow amongst the gravel - which brings to mind an old Native American planting method in dryland areas. A small berm would be built ...

Eco Ola needs your help as our home is woefully under threat. In the past week huge swaths of our own old growth trees were completely cut down without any warning or notification by surveyors employed by a foreign entity! Why? Because the village of Mazan is impoverished and they know that no re...

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Non Profit organisation Jordanian Association For Environment Quality To establish a model project of sustainable arid land development, demonstrating that all the basic needs for a healthy, meaningful, peaceful lifestyle can be affordable, understood and achieved by poor local people. The p...

Advanced Permaculture Teacher TrainingMarch 2013 O.U.R. Ecovillage With Jude Hobbs Cascadia Permaculture