The Plenitud Teaching and Research Center is located in Las Marias, Puerto, and is focused on research and educational outreach in the areas of permaculture food-production systems and natural building techniques.

A citrus green smoothie: a wonderful vitamin C boost to counter the winter colds… Winter always brings out the runny noses and colds. Citrus and greens, which are in season in winter, provide a wonderful boost of vitamin C, especially together. For this smoothie I used Silverbeet, Kale, Comfr...

  Why is this a cosmological matter? It had its origin in 19th century, when ornament became something to be applied, not something arasing originally from its context. Adolf Loos, trying to overcome a spurious and disconnected attitude to ornament, began the early 20th-century revolt against ir...

Building a permaculture living community of people to educate, learn, share, build, and create change in Southern Louisiana, 60 miles from New Orleans. Using this 8.5 acres of land to influence and change the thinking of how we relate and listen to the Mother Nature. Stewarding the land and i...

This is the link to the presentation we used to illustrate about permaculture, showing our own experience and many more examples from around the world. http://www.slideshare.net/ereciclaje/permacultura-medellin-08-presentation   Some pictures of the warehouse we ran between 2003 and 2008 downt...

Community gardens are a way of bringing people together with a common interest and passion for helping each other. Not only do you help with the creation of a beautiful garden but the social interaction is especially valuable to many people who find it difficult to make friends or due to ...

You can find out more about the survey - and take it! - through liberationecology.org/survey. Would you consider sending an email along to your own community or listserve? Or would you consider putting a blurb, button, or link on your website? It's a great way to support this emerging phenomenon...

Ecoaldea Nutriclaje is 2600 square meters of land donated to eRECICLAJE by Eduardo Cardona, neighbour of the Altavista neighborhood after a CleanUp in 2007, so we could ran the eRECICLAJE operation and bring permaculture to this neighborhood with deep environmental and social problems.

Last year I encountered several snakes around the place, both King Browns as well as Red Belly Blacks. Having been born in Germany, I never knew what it was like to grow up with a whole bunch of small, highly poisonous creatures right on your doorstep, ready to kill you should you accidentally...

This spring saw a lot of important trees go in the ground, but the abnormal weather we had (May weather in March) fooled most everything into waking up early, with the result being that most fruiting trees got zapped by frost several times in April. Many of the trees I planted got heavily frosted...

PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE by Earthcare Education Aotearoa www.earthcare-education.org   20 Feb - 10 March 2015 Venue: Tui Community, Golden Bay, South Island, New Zealand Main Tutor: Robina McCurdy and others   ‘Permaculture’ is an integrated landuse design methodology based on ecologic...

Permaculture Education in New Zealand - Enlivening Community through Permaculture & Deep Ecology

The Tamarillo in our kitchen garden. The tamarillo is a very versatile tree, which grows easily in our sub tropical climate. It is native to South America. The tamarillo has a lovely semi-sweet flavoured fruit, which is similar in flavour to tomato, hence the name “Tree Tomato”. It is...

Farming the City Block – with Matt Morden of GaiavedaThe idea of the city block is to look not only at our own private gardens but also the combined central space created by the blocks on which we live. This will give us increased access to potential resources, from the land and from the people l...