We encourage everyone to check out the new permaculture sustainability and social change crowdfunding site. www.WeTheTrees.com The site was dreamed up and created by the Panya Project's founder, Christian Shearer, so we are really excited and proud of Panya Projects connection to this site...

We encourage everyone to check out the new permaculture sustainability and social change crowdfunding site. www.WeTheTrees.com The site was dreamed up and created by the Panya Project’s founder, Christian Shearer, so we are really excited and proud of Panya Projects connection to this site. ...

We should be harvesting 500 to 1000 Tilapia a week come September and we are experimenting with several common perennial plant species in our raised water grow beds and looking for others to try. I am experimenting with trying to grow a wetland. Here is the link to the Picasa Album. 

Four O'clock flowers Our family lives in a historic neighborhood of Chico, California called the Barber Neighborhood. Our neighborhood was named after O. C. Barber, the founder of the Diamond Match Company, who had a factory built nearby to process lumber for matches at the turn of the twe...

We past our perk test so we are good to go on our septic install. the backhoe will get used often starting this fall with tree plantings and hugelkultur beds.    

Aloha friends! I'm off for my summer adventures to the magical islands of Hawaii.  I was greeted with a warm welcome of some good south swell surf at Ala Moana Beach Park then I mosied up to the North Shore of Oahu to the famous Banzai Pipeline Surf Break to stay at Meleanas Farm. Here I am a co...

This project is a conversion to permaculture. The farm has clementines, grapevines, olive trees and animals. It has been on the bio dynamics so its looking good already but fixin to look even better :) ce project est une conversion vers la permaculture. La ferme est plantee en clementines, en ra...

  LivinginPeace Project Permaculture Design Course in Karamea
 (September 30 to October 14, 2012) The LivinginPeace Project in Karamea on the West Coast will be offering a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) from September 30 to October 14, 2012. We are fortunate to have Tim Barker as the senio...

LivinginPeace Project Permaculture Design Course in Karamea
 (September 30 to October 14, 2012) The LivinginPeace Project in Karamea at the top of the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand will be offering a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) from September 30 to October 14, 2012. We ar...

This will be my first full scale permaculture project. I will be living on a 3.18 acre property with the goal of sustainably feeding 4+ adults.

A small shelter under construction process for the Beira-Baixa climate (Portugal), having sharp thermal differences, very hot summer and very cold winter. The structure is simple, having a big thermal mass will stabilize the temperature inside. Um abrigo em processo de construção para o clima d...

Lauburu garden finished Two months ago we published a thread explaining our concept about mandala garden with lauburu shape. At that time we were building it, but we’ve done and is ongoing. Here is a photo of mandala-lauburu over: Comparing shapes The figure I have in hand is a Lau...

Holistic Management Course in Arkaute (Basque Country) Within the cycle of Regenerative Agriculture courses that are being made in Spain during 2012 we have this one: “Holistic Management applied to livestock farms.” Deals mainly with intensive rotational grazing. First I have to explain...

Please go to www.permacuturemaldives.blogspot.com to read full story with pictures.    Mark Garrett GreenMate  Permaculture Design Consultant  "Keeping It Green"

Bahrija Oasis is a dry land's permaculture project demonstrating effective permaculture design for abundance including soil and water management strategies using local resources.

It's very easy to buy Borax in Norway, if you can afford to pay 78.62 USD pr. 30 grams. In that case you just visit the nearest pharmacy. If you want to buy food grade Hydrogen Peroxide though, that is more difficult - or maybe even impossible. First you have to get an application form se...

My friend has hired me to help her in her yard.   It is riddled with over grown shrubs, run-off issues, deer, invasives and sprinkled with poison ivy.  Lucky for me I do not seem to be allergic to the poison ivy.  Of course I still take the proper percautions so I do not transfer the stuff around...

At this point I have narrowed down the jungalone resistant plants and finally convinced the board/community association to stop mowing the grounds near the stream-bed.  That toke almost a whole year of convincing them to stop.  Now I can start gathering the native plants and other non invasives t...