I'm a little late updating here but I finally did my PDC. I took my PDC with the Permaculture Institute of Eastern Ontario in the fall of 2012. We are also presenting at our local Permaculture Convergence this year too. Check it out the Program for the 2013 Eastern Ontarion Permaculture Converge...

Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge: Report on Piped-Water System Current Status and Design Update   We are an eco-lodge and Permaculture training centre based in Konso, south Ethiopia.   Water Source   Our only current water source for potable water and garden irrigation is the Konso Town munic...

Green abundance, love the kale! Green leafy vegetables are a substantial part of our garden. They are (usually) extremely easy to grow (the exception being our summer, when the heat wilts them easily or the torrential downpours drown them...). In winter however, we have an abundance of greens, m...

Sadhana Forest -Kenya   Sadhana Forest takes their expertise from India, on to Haiti, and now is trying to earn support for an upstart project in Kenya. The organization has won a number of rewards for their reforestation efforts and has a proven track record in not only restoring indige...

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LocaVerdi has ended its cooperation with De Sterke Akkers and is no longer involved in this project.

Helder is comming for an America tour...Colorado will be the first landscape to feel the positive impact...join this transformative event.   For all the information http://sublimart.blogspot.pt/   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCQRXLuE0g      

This project has been undertaken as a result of an invitation and request from local Senegalese land owner Mamadou Diamanka, who is now living in Australia to teach his fellow villagers how to grow food using permaculture principles. The project will take a number of trips and consultation and i...

Day 1 of the Permacuture Design Course tomorrow.....A PDC is an intensive 2 week course that teaches Permaculture as a holistic design system. We will be facilitating the course for 60 attendees from the Eastern province of Rwanda, a mix of government and NGO staff agronomists and horticulturalis...

I am working with Rick Coleman from Southern Cross Permaculture Institute in Rwanda, we are undertaking a food security project and teaching a full 2 week PDC to local agronomists, members of agricultural cooperatives and local staff of ADRA Rwanda an NGO that is active in the Eastern Province of...

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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 ...

P4P is a civil society effort initiated by TRANSCEND International-Ghana directed at demonstrating agricultural and nutritional self-reliance. The immediate beneficiaries of this programme will be the local communities situated in the vicinity of the project grounds. New job opportunities, techni...

Well, its been about a year since the project began and a lot has changed... First the good... winter greens for almost the entire winter has been a success... Lettuce, kale, mizuna and other Asian greens, and even a few citrus (sudachi, mikan, kinkan) not to mention the odd success with chard, c...

For more information please go to: http://allsortsacre.ca/education/permaculture-design-certificate-course/   “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein Everyday we hear about the problems that are in the world today. Climate change, ...

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we expereinced days of torrential rain. yet my driveway which once upon a time prior to the swales being placed was al;ways inaccessible , has become accessible duting these floods.  we now have an allweather access thanks to the swales and berms we placed as shown in photos attached. we receiv...

Hi Folks, we have are having one of the wettest summers with high humidity  that I've known here in the subtropics (near Murwillumbah) which is Northern NSW and it has been an opportunity to actually see what plants can handle these conditions.            In the vegie department the winn...