The UMass Permaculture Initiative was originally proposed by a group of passionate UMass students. In 2009, these students presented their idea to Director of UMass Auxiliary Enterprises, Ken Toong.  Their proposal was simply to install edible and ecological landscapes right on campus.Permacultur...

In the recent 4 years I've been to several courses related to Permaculture Design, to learn as much as possible (from teachers and participants) about teaching permaculture related content. Content is important but I keep a special attention on ways / contexts / strategies / rythms / patterns t...

When you are on Eco Ola's farm in Peru, animals appear everywhere in the most diverse and creative forms. We learn a great deal from them because they, like the principles of permaculture, exhibit how we must work with our environment and blend into our surroundings instead of destroying them. Wh...

Quinta do Luzio is a community of people united in order to build a farm in transition and to inspire new life styles!

The project is closed as we have moved to a beautiful farm near by!

With this new centre we are aming to develop the conexions between the permaculture designers and newcomers to learn techniques related to the Care of People principle.  We will associate to unite forces learning how to co-operate with our projects and other crafts or knowledge we are discovering...

A steep sloping terraced plot planted with a mixture fruit and olive trees and for general food production to feed a family of 3.

Penny Livingston, Rafael Aguilera, Geoff Lawton (Right to Left)

Penny Livingston, Rafael Aguilera, Geoff Lawton (Right to Left)

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS POSTED AT FB Group/Events Page: Liberation Permaculture at Sol Collective Recruit community volunteers and organize events. EARTH ACTIVIST SKILLS and STRATEGIES Workshops every first First Tuesday, 6pm at Sol Collective.

by Tim BarkerDuring our last workshop at the Koanga Institute, we built a rocket stove. Our design brief was very specific in that the stove had to be practical, easy to use and long lasting, whereas what is being built by most backyard experimenters like myself, while being fun to make and...

360 Litres of Bio Fertiliser, 160 Litres of pro-biotic (compost tea) and  2 1/2 cubic metres of compost was made, and tonnes of information was gleaned from the brain of this amazing teacher.  Like baking a cake: compost building Paul showed everyone his 1 (compost), 2 (pro-biotic), 3 (bio-fert...

300 acre property. Tea trea and eucalyptus forest. The farm is in its early stages with no fixed buildings. Aquaponics systems started and Superadobe building on its way, we need to have 2 volunteers to speed the project, if you are interested please contact through here or by email pepodib@hotm...

Sustainable farm in its early stages, in one of the cleanest places in the world.

"The degree of life which appears in a thing depends upon the life of its component centers and their density. Following are fifteen structural features which Christopher Alexander has identified as appearing again and again in things which have life.  Together, these fifteen properties identi...

Growing Wild includes roughly 2.2 acres of improved property that is half cleared and half forested. The initial development did not include a Permaculture plan. As we set out to remodel the existing structures, more and more sustainable concepts were included. The success of these ideas resulted...

The endless creativity of the Amazon Rainforest manifests itself in an outstanding array of fruits, vegetables, trees and animals of all shapes and sizes. At Eco Ola we not only safeguard these tropical treasures, but also propagate them through our permaculture and agroforestry practices. Here y...