on threequarters of an acre which ended up with 5 swales due to the slope . the first and last swales were 80 wide and the middle ones 60 wide. We included road water catchment with that so put berms on the road flowing into the swales Our next project is planting it all .. that is a hard part....

  Here are photos of some of the first fall harvest vegetables that we preserved in the Center for Sustainable Community Canning Kitchen. We started off the season with storing strawberry corn kernels,canning tomatoes, beets, applesauce, BBQ sauce, sweet & sour sauce, chutney, and lots of pe...

HOKUSAI SAYS by Roger Keyes Hokusai says Look carefully.He says pay attention, notice.He says keep looking, stay curious.He says there is no end to seeing.He says Look Forward to getting old.He says keep changing, you just get more who you really are.He says get stuck, accept it, repeat yoursel...

www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010175.tree crops.pdf

http://transitionculture.org/2012/10/03/a-september-round-up-of-whats-happening-out-in-the-world-of-transition/

I'm pleased to present my new almost-2 acres paradise. Here is a blog post that present the place : http://prise2terre.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/belle-arrivee-pour-un-nouveau-depart/ it's in french, but some photos...   We could admit that future should look like the past, from an energetic poin...

A feline look at the world from a resilient community

"What started out as an experiment to see if I could grow a miniature food forest within an urban yard has now traveled 3 years since the first spade was turned." Looking back at an intrepid beginning the original concept of growing food as a forest environment in such a small space was ...

Join us for the Permaculture Immersion Course in Orlando January 3-6 at the Econ Farm.    The Permaculture Immersion Course is something new we are offering and will be like a mini Permaculture Design Course but totally interactive and hands on with little to no lecture. The curriculum for day ...

What’s old is new, right? And, what’s new is old, yes? New old and Old new, old, new, new, old...... Why do I get the feeling the line is blurring there somewhere? The NEW gateway. Neighbour Nev:  Hi neighbour, I see you have been busy lately... getting all that fencing up. Mudlark: Y...

The Carbon Farmer is giving away $2551.00 to communities in need of an eco-friendly face-lift! The "MEGGA-watt?" project was selected for this great competition! Vote now and vote daily until February 24 - http://bit.ly/Tf4a44 The "MEGGA-watt?" Project (Micro-Energy Generating Garage Assembly)...

Windward is a cooperative community of over thirty years dedicated to preserving and developing village scale technologies needed to support a thriving sustainable community on marginal land. Windward is a small community, and does not intend to grow into a large one. However, we are looking ...

Jiwa Damai is a socially responsible, hands-on permaculture farm and retreat center on Bali, Indonesia. We practice sustainable biological gardening, grow organic fruits and vegetables, water preservation and recycling.

2012 is our eighth year of small scale farming in France and has seen us move from income dependence to financial security and independence. Looking back over the last eight years at our mistakes and our successes in getting to this point demonstrates the value of an integrated approach. When we ...

We are a group of like minded individuals from diverse backgrounds focused on building community through art, technology, open source, shared decision-making, education, ecological sustainability and permaculture.

i found this good website that i would like to share.   http://sproutrobot.com   tells the times of planting the seeds with instructions.   edit: more Plant Maps - Plant, Tree ,Gardening ,Climate and Hardiness Zone Maps Garden calendar to keep your kitchen garden growing - vegetables and h...

It's been a long while since my last update so here's what has been happening.... Lots of work has been done on the demonstration site in Bittern, including some earthworks (2 large swales), there are more earthworks happening most likely towards the end of summer when the land drys a little mor...

It was in last November 2011 that I started weighing all my produce from the backyard. What a year it has been! The food growing area roughly measures 50 sq. m. in total and from that space I was able to produce 216.614 kilos of food in addition to 846 eggs.  Th food chart illustrates the type ...