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Daily Life In Vale da Lama Institute - Part V

Walt Ludwick
We had a two day workshop about home-made mushroom production.We learned how to grow mushrooms and also installation on trees and beds, propagation, sterilization, choosing, identifying and harvesting species, evaluating nutritional values, forest species and different types of cultivation, Home-...
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New additions to our goat family

Zaia Kendall
Newborn kids, only just standing, about 1 hour old... Marigold was behaving a bit different that morning, so Tom put her in the resource paddock, so she could graze freely and find herself a comfy spot should she give birth. We all had to go out that morning, and when I came back I heard some ...
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Ward Family Farm's Urban Farm

Ward Family Farm's Urban Farm
A 1/4 acre lot with residence that has been turned into a permaculture farm, producing fruits vegetables and small livestock, using permaculture practices
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Smith Homestead

Smith Homestead
Converting a 5.5 acre forest homesite into an edible woodland as well as adding diversity and beauty.
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Bonbonaje Leaves for Roofing---Eco Ola

When you live in one of the most diverse and abundant rainforests in the world, you must learn to use its resources effectively and sustainably for both your needs and the health of the planet. Here you see Eco Ola workers using bonbonaje leaves to create a roof on our farm in the Peruvian Amazon...
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Ward Family Farms

Ward Family Farms
This farm is an ongoing project for 3 generations of the Ward Family.
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Eco granja La Maloca, permacultura y co...

Eco granja La Maloca, permacultura y construccion natural
casa escuela permacultural, desarrollo creativo, vision accion= cambio de realidad.
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Strategic Framework for Sustainability (SFS): Model 4a

Ezio Gori
The updated SFS Model 4a can be downloaded at http://www.permaculture2012.co.za/site/files/7042/SFS_v4a_EGori.pdf
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Green Education Center

Green Education Center
The Green Education Center is an educational project teaching permaculture, homesteading, alternative energy, and sustainable practices.
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Mahatma Ghandi Quote and Eco Ola

Mahatma Ghandi once declared: "What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." Eco Ola believes that being stewards of the Amazon Rainforest and its peoples will ultimately create an existence that improves our world....
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Construcción Natural en Ushuaia-1

Tierra Martinez
En este albún podemos observar parte de la primer construcción en tierra cruda de Ushuaia, la ciudad mas austral del mundo!!!. En la base del jardín Dailan Kifki desarrollamos las bases de un nuevo salón de clases para los niños en el cual se trabaja sembrando, compostando y vivenciando mas relac...

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PermaNegev #2 has launched!

Alice Gray
After a couple of false starts, where we were unable to start for lack of students, we have launched our second PermaNegev course.  We are very happy to welcome Yoshi and David to the Bustan family as full-time students and we have an exciting program lined up that will attract a lot of visitors ...
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Tackling the Urban Challenge

Zaia Kendall
Maximising space on a balcony Most people in the world today live in an urban environment. Although this comes with advantages such as closeness to facilities, community, markets etc., it also comes with challenges for those who would like to live more sustainably and are keen to become more s...
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Earth Activist Training & Permaculture Design Certificate

Brock Foster
Earth Activist Training & Permaculture Design Certificate With Starhawk & Charles Williams http://www.ourecovillage.org/

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EcoNest Builder Training

Brock Foster
EcoNest Builder Training

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Forever Productive Forest

Forever Productive Forest
I have always had an interest in the natural world of plants and animals. In 2008 I began to experience college, I began to become more knowledgeable about plants and worked summers as a forestry seasonal. These combinations started to develop an interest in native plants and resto...
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Coming into a new time!

Titus Blair
The future is truly bright for permauclture!
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