Research and training institute for community based resilience building; Permaculture farm and demonstration site(s)

Research and training institute for community based resilience building; Permaculture farm and demonstration site.

Some time ago Richard Perkins came to Vale da Lama to teach a Dryland permaculture course. A good update about the event followed by some news from Spain can be read from his profile: http://permacultureglobal.org/posts/2854

This is such an interesting story of human intervention in a landscape. Portugal is so enticing. The wave-filled coast, the small winding roads, the curved hills, the deserted stone farm houses. And most of all the warmth and human-ness of the people. Some people are ordained by cultu...

        Pic. 1 - Ridge landscape, shrubs (Cytisus, Erica, Genista, Ulex, Rubus spp., oaks-Quercus roble here and there,  herbs and grasses) regrow from the ashes (or from the undamaged roots) after July 2005 big fire (previous to this one was in 1988). Arbutus unedo trail - Mountain Walk...

Hello Permaculture Fans,   there is a Discount for everybody booking until the 15.October for the November PDC to fill up our last spaces available!Please be quick and get in contact with us,Greetings and much love from Portugal   Heal The Soil Portugal Team

By revitalizing our land in the Amazon Rainforest through permaculture and agroforestry techniques, Eco Ola fosters the development of a wildlife corridor. Here you see a very tiny frog hidden among pandilla seeds. Because many creatures of the Amazon are quite small, the spread of our 'beyond or...

PermaSculpture park integrating food forest design with outdoor sculpture.

In conjunction with Nick Huggins we've begun our first Canberra based PDC.  18 great students, really keen to learn.

"Valley View" is a pig and grazing based Permaculture project located in the Bredbo River Valley.

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Observation: Stream invaded by mimosas, no water running from spring to outumn. Area 3,5 hectares. Design: Focus on regenerate the soils, speeding the sucession as key for bring the forest back. First fase was designing and implement the water catchment, that will supply ferrocimento tank and h...

Restauration of an open air theater from the 1930s

Applied Watershed Restoration at Quail Springs Permaculture.  Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2012 Join us for the first Applied Watershed Restoration course to be held at Quail Springs Permaculture.  The setting for this course is perfect and will provide unique opportunities to understand how watershed-scal...

Edible forest garden and home permaculture site.

http://www.eco-ola.com/2012/09/30/amazon-women-working-together-microfinance/ Eco Ola's Peruvian founder, Carla Noain, is a businesswoman that makes care and compassion priorities for our operations. Not only does she exemplify the next generation of female entrepreneurs leading the way in susta...

Websites: Suncalc.net - Map sun directions for a location. forestfarm.com - Store and plant database. Really good search function (search by edibility!).   Software: Android phone/Tablet: Sundroid iPhone/iPad: SunSeeker 3D Apple: Apple Picker :)  Hardware: American made Woodsmans Pal Cla...

Inspired by other bloggers, i wanted to try my luck with the much acclaimed lettuce tree. Reported challenges have been to keep the soil in the upper part from drying out. Alright, off i go to the hardware store again. This time, spending 3.50 Euro for the polypropylene pipe (15 cm diameter) do ...