Nicole (Stoneleigh) Foss will be joining us in Belize for the 8th Annual Permaculture Design Course at the Maya Mountain Research Farm. http://www.thefarm.org/etc/mmrfpdc.html. I invited her to participate in the August course in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, but she said she's never been in...

http://sunriseranch.org/farm/permaculture-design-certification-course/ Course Content In this course, you will learn: regenerative design studies, full loop waste systems, food forest design and implementation, community scale fruit and vegetable production, plant propagation, greenhouse ...

Enlarge image Planting a permanent culture in San Francisco By Charlie Mintz Listen  (8:21) [Kerry] Hughes stands on the sidewalk, near a chain link fence, on the corner of Fell and Laguna streets in San Francisco. Behind her, cars roar past the rows of tidy Victorians. But Hu...

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” ~Hen...

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” ~Hen...

My backyard food forest transformation project includes chickens, water catchment, hugelkulture, food forest layering, polycultures galore and much much more. The sky is the limit.

Lead Facilitator: Alex McCausland Co-facilitators: Abel Teshome Dates: April 1st to 13th, 2013 Location: Konso, South Ethiopia Venue: Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge Cost: US$850 ($600 discounted rate for Ethiopians or Interns staying 12 weeks or more) [10% early-bird discount available befor...

We are transforming a standard American Dwelling into a Sustainable Community using the power of the Earth, Sun, and the spirit of all individuals involved

We spent most of Sunday firstly walking the terraced land and discovering the lower borders of the farm. To visit the top of the land required a tractor trip up a newly cleared route (apparently made with help from the local volunteer bombeiros in the last month)... It was quite a shock to begin ...

The permaculture garden of a 35 member co-housing community.

The size of a football field is being destroyed each second from our world's rainforest. This means that the source of 1/3 of the world's oxygen is swiftly disappearing. Every day that passes our ability to breathe quality air is imperiled. As dire as everything appears, the answer to these dilem...

1 ha PC garden currently getting developed. Main interests are 1. to establish self sufficiency for our family based mainly on plants and animals which naturally belong to boreal climate zone or grow here easily. 2. to teach herbal (medicine) skills and self sufficiency skills (with a focus o...

We have incorporated a worm tower for disposal of vege scraps in our second deluxe wicking bed….. 5 meter long and bench height. The tower is simply a thick walled pipe which is made from  recycled plastic bottle lids, ( hence it is gaily coloured)  buried 4 inches ( 100 mm) or so into the surfac...

The Balmeggberg is a community of three families in the Emmental in Switzerland. We cultivate 3ha land and 3ha forest, situated on a steep slope. We work according to the principles of permaculture. During spring, summer and fall we look for interested permaculture trainees willing to join our ...

The Eco Ola team is working with colleagues in the United States and Peru to start Acaté Amazon Conservation, which is rapidly developing and will be launching in the coming weeks. Acaté’s projects operate at the cutting edge of conservation by integrating culture, health, and the environment int...

Vamos Verde is a 40ha project inspired by permaculture and nature.

Learn how to develop sustainable systems which can be applied to all aspects of life through the observation and replication of natural patterning. We will learn how to creat regenerative systems that provide for our basic needs without compromising the environment. Permaculture is presented as a...