I moved to a house on a suburban block in a country town 2 hours south of Sydney in 2008. Promptly turned over grass, added cocopeat, chicken composted pellets, blood and bone, by 2012 beginning to be a jungle that can be shaped.

The use of small hand tools in farming can be found all over the world, however in the 1st world many of these tools and skills on how to use, maintain and repair these tools have been lost. If you go to 3rd world countries you can still find these small hand tools still being used today, a...

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I have fantastic news to share with everyone. The Barbados Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resources Management has officially partnered up with CPRI and has given the project 15 acres of land in the most desirable area, Graeme Hall in the Parish of Christ Church. We are ironin...

We can just about see the light at the end of the tunnel of this house building project. We passed our big rough in inspection so we are down to finsh work now. We should be ready to move in, in about 2 months.    

"Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night" ~ Victor Hugo   http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=540587259314356&set=a.375354115837672.90487.168036436569442&type=1&theater

I had teed this one up before heading to Australia to do my PDC so it had always been at the back of my mind, but I hadn't anticiapted how much my inital thougts would change upon returning for a site visit with more educated eyes and looking at it with my post-PDC knowledge. An appox 350m² sout...

Well this was a tough brief from my first client, I have to say.  She had recently bought the property and it had a decent sized back yard with some existing trees around the edges of a large lawn on a slight incline towards the house. The challenge was that she was not particularly "green", not...

9 - 18 August 2013 | Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Co Tipperary | Express your interest in attending | Fees €550 / Reserve a spot with a €100 deposit (detail here). Join Albert Bates, awarded the Gaia 2012 Award, accompanied by gardening, farming, perma-facture, social permaculture and green buil...

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As most of us know, grey water is a term used to refer to “waste” water that has been used once in any domestic system except for toilets (which is referred to as black water). However grey water from the kitchen may be considered as “dark grey” water on account of the fact that it tends to co...

online community facilitating kid designed edible playgardens through education, community events and fundraising promotion

Day 2 of Rwanda PDC. Big day of teaching for me today: Reviewed zone and sector planning with an interactive exercise (sand map on ground). Permaculture ethics were introduced to the group, I then facilitated the group in exploring their own ethics and how they related to care of ...

Day 1 of the PDC saw us working in hot conditions. We have based ourselves in the grounds of a small rural hospital in the Kyonza district of Eastern Rwanda. It has some seriously bad land to work with, extremely degraded with gravel and no organic matter or water holding capacity, this i...

New publication soon:Since we are receiving enquiries about how to germinate and suceed in the planting of moringas through our winter, we have decided to produce a publication that will contain information we have collected and our own experiences in the topic since last summer, when we had a ge...

Project to adapt the Moringa oleifera tree to the mediterranean climate using permaculture techniques.

Aloha! I'm currently living in Hawaii! My dream was to live and work on a farm walking disctance to the beach with warm water, surfing and snorkeling, and pleanty of coconut trees and I found it on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii at Waihuena Farm. The farm is owned by Meleana Judd and her famil...

Water Source Our only current water source for potable water and garden irrigation is the Konso Town municipal supply which is drawn from a bore-hole situated just across the road from our site entrance. The supply facility is a manned pumping station with an electric water pump, backed up by...