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Saudi Farms

Saudi Farms
Working for one of the largest farms in Saudi Arabia, the client brief was to help manage multiple waste streams to be used for specialist composting. Included in the brief were to introduce any methodologies that would assist the farm to become more sustainable, build soil vitality, reduce water...
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Bio Arc Infiesto

Bio Arc Infiesto
What we am doing: we are having fun setting up an organic smallholding. Where we are: we are in some beautiful mountains 650m up and about 25 km from the sea in Asturias, northern Spain. What help do we need: All practical help and skills welcome. However at the top of the list are tasks such a...
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Permaculture Gardening September 14th - 16th 2012

Laura Williams
Join Laura Williams and Annelieke van der Sluijs on our beautiful quinta nestled in the Serra do Açor Mountains. The weekend will be hands on, empowering you with the skills to get started and/or develop your existing garden with permaculture principles. Using permaculture you will be able to wor...
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Shikigami open day and workshop

Dion Workman
Saturday May 26 Due to the number of requests we have recently received from people wishing to visit Shikigami we will be holding an open day on Saturday May 26. We invite you to join us for a tour of our site. We will walk throug...
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Shikigami open day and workshop

Dion Workman
Saturday May 26 Due to the number of requests we have recently received from people wishing to visit Shikigami we will be holding an open day on Saturday May 26. We invite you to join us for a tour of our site. We will walk throug...
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Tokyo workshops, April

Dion Workman
Returning to the Way of Nature A two day workshop facilitated by Dion Workman and Takuya Sasa. In English and Japanese. When: Saturday April 21 & 28 Where: Nerima-ku, Tokyo Suggested donation ¥ 10000 To participate or for more information please contact tabi0419[at]gmail[dot]com A works...
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Tokyo workshops

Dion Workman
Returning to the Way of Nature A two day workshop facilitated by Dion Workman and Takuya Sasa. In English and Japanese. When: Saturday April 21 & 28 Where: Nerima-ku, Tokyo Suggested donation ¥ 10000 To participate or for more information please contact tabi0419[at]gmail[dot]com A works...
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Growing Awareness

Growing Awareness
We provide permaculture design services, project development, courses and training.We also work with International NGO's and grassroots organisations to hold courses in countries around the world, to support and develop projects through permaculture.
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Diversity

Marc Van Hummelen
Lately, whenever I talk or write about the ethic principles of permaculture, I usually add a fourth principle, or rather, I "upgrade" one of the design principles: Diversity. Caring for Diversity may come very natural for people who have adopted the principles in their daily life, but for many pe...
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Newbie Starting the Online PDC!

Adele Sweeney
For about 18 months I've weighed up a few distance learning PDCs but they just didn't seem to grab me.  A couple of days ago I stumbled on a course I hadn't seen before and it had an Intro to Permaculture for a fraction of the whole course...so I thought I'd give it a go.  I contacted the site to...
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PDC near Nice, France, before the permaculture festival

Steve Read
Cours certifié de Permaculture (CCP), sur le lieu du Festival de la Permaculture 2012, nord de Nice (06), 14 au 23 juillet, 2012en français 400€ camping,  (le cours certifié, les repas et l'hébergement sont inclus dans ces prix, (voir en haut de page l'explication sur le montant des cours) Voi...
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Delavnice urejanja zeliščnega vreta (herb garden workshops)

lovro vehovar
  1. delavnica, sobota 14.4. in nedelja 15.4. 2012Načrtovanje vrta in priprava zemljišča - visoke grede, jarki, zeliščna spirala. Na prvi delavnici spoznavamo, kako s pomočjo preoblikovanja površine najbolje zadržimo vodo na vrtu in hkrati omogočimo rastlinam in sebi ugodne pogoje za rast oz. de...

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Forest garden planted at folxgarden and solar power harvested

harald wedig
Good timing. After almost 4 weeks of an unusual spring drought, we planted our fruit trees and berry shrubs . In total about 16 trees: four apples, one pear, a peach, a nectarine, a plum, a khaki, a walnut, two cherrys, two hazel, an amelanchier, a grafted cornus, to call them by names. I dont wa...
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Heathcote Botanical Garden's No Till Or...

Heathcote Botanical Garden's No Till Organic Garden
A no till organic garden entirely volunteer driven. All produce harvested goes to a local food pantry. Volunteers learn how to grow food without tilling, turning, spraying, or fertilizing.
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Permaculture Sheet Mulch Bed

Delvin Solkinson
Visionary Permaculture : Biodynamic Sheet Mulch Community Garden Building Don Van Kleek is a visionary. When he approached me about creating the 'Community Peace Gardens' to allow local people to grow their own food on site I leaped with joy. This will serve as an educational opportunity t...
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Spring 2012 Update

Joshua Finch
Nature is taking care of most of the work for us. The first of our cover crops, crimson clover, is in full bloom. Our white clover is blooming, but not yet into full bloom. Their relative red clover is just beginning to flower while the alfalfa is failing to show any signs of blooms yet. Se...

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Chickens

Maaike Mussche
Finally we have chickens!Even when you are trying very hard to not have to throw food away you do have some leftovers sometimes so I'm very happy the hens can transform them into eggs now. They can also make my compost-heap seed-free, on the photos you ca see I put it inside the coop. I also plan...

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Moving in!

Gaël Giusti
Last week, my parents moved in to a small house sitting in a 476 square metre garden. It located in a small city (Crolles) near Grenoble (France). A retired person lived there for quite a while and was a keen gardener. However, I did find some chemicals and pesticides in his garden shed so it is ...
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