Eco Ola has been working intimately with the Matses tribe of Peru and learning from their profound knowledge of the rainforest. As our colleague Dr. Christopher Herndon commented: "It is not a coincidence that the remaining tracts of pristine rainforest in the Neotropics overlap with areas of ind...

Un nouveau billet présente le bilan de la première année sur le terrain.   Here is a new post on the blog about the one year assessment of our design on the project.

It's all there http://bigsmallfarm.org And you can be part of it!  

We are developing about 10 acres of beautiful mountain landscape into a working model of permaculture design.

I love the initial statement by Serafini in the interview:"The design is out there already."This goes to the very core of true and real sustainable design. This is the exactly opposite to the ideologies and the rationality of the 20th century, first and foremost implemented through PLANNING! The ...

Worked as Volunteer Coordinator, Wildlife Sanctuary Caretaker, Kids' Camp Teacher; Costa Rica's Pacific coast.

Our night time pest controller Tom and I were absolutely stumped when we saw an ad on tv (we were away, we do not have television at home, so we are a bit out of touch in regards to commercial tv...). The ad was promoting a little gadget you put in a power point, which then regularly sprays "sme...

Daruma Eco-farm is a permaculture research and education center cultivating all-age learning in order to develop eco-literacy and individual and social responsibility.

mandala garden area - 300 square meters rised beds covered with nitrogen fixing plants and straw mulch keyhole beds maximizyng edge efect inoculated with mushroom mycelium policulture of adible vegetables, fruit bushes and grains no need for watering for most of the year and no need for wee...

"Can consumer choice be a driver of change? The answer is yes, provided that consumers make informed decisions based on awareness of how their purchases impact others and our planet.If, however, all the available products are produced by the same corporations using the same shortsighted and destr...

Fargo Forest Garden is an urban designed food forest that teaches tree care and permaculture fundamentals and showcases water-catchment, catch basin/ponding, bird habitat and more.

CAMPAMENTO DE PERMACULTURA POR EL VERANOEstamos en un bosque nativo en el sur de Chile en donde hubo un hábitat campestre cuarenta años atrás. Nuestro interés es el restaurar el lugar y ese estilo de vida para una comunidad usando principios permacultura.Estamos recibiendo solicitudes de interesa...

SUMMER PERMACULTURE CAMPWe just arrived to a native forest land in Southern Chile where there was a functioning homestead forty years ago. We intend to bring back to life the rustic home environment and organic garden that once flourished here. The land does not and will not have urban services. ...

After doing a Canyon Restoration Master Plan for the City and regional government of Valparaiso the team stayed together and we recently legalized-created a Community Development Corporation NGO (Biosfera XXI - Biosphere XXI) with the purposes of: Restoration of the Chilean Family Farm, Land Rest...

I am transitioning my small backyard lot to permaculture, which is a 60'w x 40'l space.

Bosque de alimentos (Food forest) Taller de recuperación de oficios (Trades Recovery Workshop) Aula educativa (education classroom)

Always having fun doing projects.

At the beginning of November, it was the third time that I went to Ecolline. Ecolline is a very promising project of 10 bioclimatic houses stuck together in a nature friendly environement setup (phyto epuration, compost, rain water storing ...). There, house walls are made with wood for the skele...