Our intentional community has 100 acres of prime agricultural land and we're looking for people to join our community to practice and teach permaculture.
Not just dirt
People are very concerned about pests and disease in their garden. Slugs, caterpillars, moths and numerous other critters that seem to make a scrumptious meal out of the fruits and vegetables so lovingly tended in backyards. Molds and fungus that inexplicably appear on otherwise ...
Looking at their farm land to see how we can make it sustainable in many ways. From inviting interested parties from overseas to help to making it really workable for the families of the Green Gecko.
The Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast is extremely fortunate to have Paul Taylor coming to teach his Sustainable Soil Management course here early October. We still have spaces available in this course, so do not hesitate to call or email us to book in!
Paul Taylor was rai...
On 7-8 July we celebrated our first weekend course about “Introduction to Permaculture”. Saturday was dedicated to the theory, from 10-14 to 16-20 h we discussed several presentations that explain the basics of permaculture, practical cases in the world and here in the country, our own case as e...
In this summer we continued performing various tasks outlined here, will detail later some of them with pictures and explanations:
- We celebrated our first guided tour, we did it in early June. Also we celebrated our first Permaculture Introduction course at the end of July, during a weekend. I...
Well, I am in Datca. Datca is town of Mugla in Turkey. I am working a project as a voluntary. the project is just start and I would do what I leant in my permaculture lessons. we try to food forest in 7000 m square. and many project. if you would like to intrested connect with me
The philosopher Meister Eckhart once declared, "What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we will reap in the harvest of action." We feel that the care and attention with which Eco Ola treats its partner farmers, surrounding neighbors and wildlife is rewarded in the abundance of our harvests. T...
Please follow this link and learn more about this important endless natural cycle........
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Greetings from the Heal the Soil Team
There has been a lot of work already done in Australia in terms of getting children to do gardening projects and to produce what they eat, these are fabulous programs. I would love to see more of this in schools throughout the world.
I think we should also be teaching our children about water, i...
Vale da Lama has offered to host and help in the development of the Portuguese Diploma system and am currently involved in developing this process here. We have a draft proposal which has been received well by prospective students and will be further developed before presenting it at the European...
Here’s the
Goodness! …
Imagine 5 days of
hands-on Permaculture education, Earth building, Surfing, daily Yoga,
Kayaking, Mountain hiking, Eco-films & discussions, Contemporary Maori Raranga/weaving,
discovering local community solutions in action, making new friends and sharing
time...
The first project that I will get involved in is a new community garden project of about 200m2 in a residential estate in Singapore.
The first step was to convince the neighbourhood committee to make use of the land which was otherwise not being used. Despite the small area, a few principles of ...
After several months of traveling, Bobbie and I are working on a horse farm and have committed for the next year. I am in a situation that travel will be possible, perhaps involving a week or two away. So if you have projects around the Washington DC area I would be able to get involved quite si...
My aim is to explore, test and spread applications of permaculture in an urban environment, gathering best practices of what has already been done and learn from people who applied their knowledge before me.
One of the first steps will be to test various scenarii and applications on rooftops and...
