Non-commercial smallholding in the west of Ireland (fruit & veg, dairy goats & chickens, flowers, bees and plenty of wildlife ...). Trying to meet many of our needs with not too much work, while also increasing biodiversity and carbon sequestration.
Someone recently expressed to me that one of the most wonderful things they experience year after year is the growth and transition that a single seed will take to turn into something beautiful and edible. At my own garden here at stone turtle things are exploding and I am loving every moment. Wi...
Our organization is a not for profit, non-partisan volunteer group focused on delivering popular education, supporting community projects and advocating for sustainable and socially just living spaces in Ottawa through liberation permaculture. We are committed to organizing around a respect for d...
The Community Urban Food Forest (CUFF) is a not-for-profit and community-engaged project of Permaculture Ottawa. In conjunction with Just Food Ottawa we are creating a Food Forest to act as a demonstration, education and propagation site. This project is a pilot project determined to see what p...
Hey permies, I just got back from an incredible weekend with Edible Food Forests expert, Eric Townsmeier. I attended this advanced permaculture class in Miami at the Earth Learning Center. They have an awesome permaculture farm thats just getting started. Eric was great and he opened our mind...
Superfood pudding with whipped raw cream
We do get an absolute abundance of bananas from our trees. Sometimes I use them to make one of our favourite breakfasts: Superfood pudding!
In my wonderful Vitamix blender (best blender around, highly recommended!!) I put around 12 bananas (...
Whirlwind Community Farm encompasses 240 acres (96 ha) of desert in southwest New Mexico, a scant three miles from the Mexican border. It was purchased in 2006 by author and teacher Sankara Saranam. The intention was for this property to serve as a location to establish a community of like-minded...
Hello Permie World!
I would like to share with you all the exciting news that a year's work for my architecture thesis is nearly complete. The book is entitled Polytechnic Permaculture and it examines how permaculture can be a tool to establish change in univerisity institutions, particularly a...
Off to Oz to teach a few workshops, Bob is teaching a 2 day Community Land Trust workshop at the PRI then another in Melbourne for Very Edible Gardens.
When we come home we will be preparing for our new 10 week internship program beginning in September, after our PDC.
All the details of this e...
Its Friday, 19th May, 2012; and the end of an
action-packed penultimate week on PermaNegev; the permaculture design
certificate in a fledgling Bedouin permaculture project in the Israeli desert.
We have gone from 5 to 12 participants (approx) with the permaculture exchange
students up from Lo...
