After a rather productive evening on the PRI  forum, I made the decision to build a worm farm in a bathtub. I was rather fortunate to be able to pick up a nice tub from a client of mine who is doing a bathroom renovation and I had planned to use it as a water trough for visiting horses, but ala...

Yesterday I picked up an old bathtub from a client of mine who is doing a major bathroom renovation. I also scored his old shower basin, though I am not sure yet what to do with that. Anyways... the bathtub was to be used as a water trough for visiting horses, but after visiting the PRI formum l...

A New Tank Stand At the back of my propagation house I have a water tank that catches water from the roof. It has sat for the last 6 years on a timber stand high enough to allow for gravity feed for irrigation for my seedlings. Just lately the timber stand had begun to have a noticeable lean so ...

So we’re on a mission to see if we can design and implement an urban garden ( 200sq m)  that can provide a family of 4 something close to the levels of Vitamin A and calcium Weston Price found in all indigenous people’s diets that he visited in the 1920’s and 30’s. It is my understanding, from ou...

During 2005/6 Saviana Parodi visited Tashigar Norte for first time. She offered us a design for the camping area based on the principles of permaculture. The area was originally quite rough ground and somewhat complicated to inhabit. Today, five years on we are still enjoying the benefits of th...

www.habibaorganicfarm.com

Habiba Organic Farm is an organic farm in a Bedouin settlement in Nuweiba, South Sinai, Egypt. It is a piece of desert turned into fertile land, in between the Red Sea and the Sinai mountains.

The aim of this project is to create a small 2.5ac horse property which will sustain 3 horses and their owners. Providing fooder and food and eliminating, as much as possible, the need to buy in feed for the animals and produce for us humans.

After months of bureaucratic work, the Jordanian government has recognized us with official NGO status.   This is an important step for us, and we will keep growing and progressing with our activities.

Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design Support Intensive South West Diploma Support Intensive with Aranya Dates: Thu 6th September (eve) – Sun 9th September 2012. Thursday evening to late Sunday afternoon (3 day option) or Friday evening to Sunday afternoon (2 days). Are you signed up o...

Interior wall and ceiling of the Sheikh-Lotf-Allah mosque in Isfahan, Iran. Photo: Phillip Maiwald   "Later, Katalin Bende, also working on the project in our office, asked me to explain what I meant by this true liking and about people's fear of it, and why anyone could be af...

I wonder what happened to his free global energy project. I feel that more attention to his endeavors would bring more attention to energy innovation.   have a look at this link to learn more about Tesla and donate a few dollars to help the cause.   http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregvoakes/2012...

Traditional Gujarati food, Informative Documentaries, Flok Music and lot of fun with school children palnting seeds and sapling in a small village in Gujarat! Please send us a message for more details!Heal The Soil CSAwww.healthesoilcsa.org 

The kitchen team in action! We have done a lot of work since the last PDC. In the last 2 1/2 months we changed the Learning Space to another building, added a kitchen to prepare beautiful garden grown food and have insulated our water heaters. We have added some wind protection in the student ...

James Alexander Arnfinsen har nylig laget et interessant intervju med Mehdi Nodehi, lederen for Earthship Biotecture Sweden:- Episode 44: Earthship – å leve i samklang med naturens egne prinsipperSelv elsker jeg kjernedesign, dvs. at ethvert systems behov imøtekommes så nært selve kjernen som mul...

Developing a scalable, open source method for raising black soldier fly larvae as feed for poultry in wet/dry tropics. Soldier fly is fed a mixed diet of kitchen scraps and dairy cow manure. Goal is to feed 500 broilers.

My Father and I had pondered what would be the best kind of earthworks for the 'Bottom 40'. We considered 'Net and Pan', a set of small swales approx 10m apart and also a combo of both, where in between swales there would be a net and pan. As it turned out it was far too steep (43%) for any swale...