I think it may be 7 years since I last logged on...

What this place needs is people. We'd welcome visitors and volunteers, students and settlers. Obviously the challenge is finding people who like us and like the place, and people we want to share our time with for a short while or a long while.

“Nature is loved by what is best in us” - Ralph Waldo Emerson  Certainly permaculture is on the rise and I believe will bring great good to the world during this time, emerging as the powerful movement it was always destined to become. I have put together a viewable slideshow talk from my...

These bittersweet vines tunnel underground, occasionally humping to the surface like some prehistoric monster. Crazy!

Every spring, I'm awed by Mother Nature's energetic burst of life all around me. However, that power includes invasive and problematic plants as well. Much of my efforts right now are focused on clearing out things like Japanese honeysuckle, oriental bittersweet, and wineberry. I'm also finding a...

Taking an acre of overgrown, neglected land and transforming it into a welcoming haven of beauty and food!

Sustainable Community Project and Institute.

Panama Sustainable Living Research Institute is a researching Sustainable living educational platform for those who care about the planet, our lives and ours as well as the rest of all living existence. We are focous on urban projects as its known for us too as the most important part of the ...

We are turning our property into a permaculture site to teach our children and our community about permaculture principles.

Growing vegetables and medicinal plants and Environemental education in Forest-gardening

My professional background is carpentry and house remodeling, specifically for increased energy efficiency.  I completed the PDC course with Geoff Lawton and have continued my permaculture studies through various workshops in Switzerland and Italy. Currently, I am working on a design project i...

Our project has taken a barren grass desert of an urban lawn and created three areas of Ecological wellbeing. We have a front Vegetable Garden and mini-orchard, a mini meadow and forest edge area and a tiny Forest Garden, with 3 adult Black Walnuts, a Heritage Wild Grapes Vine, and many new Nativ...

Permaculture Food Forest and Fedge project at Faywood Hot Springs in NM. an RV camping and cabin park in SW New Mexico.  Looking for total immersion and relative seclusion in a relatively hot place for a while? Come Camp or R.V. or cabin if you can afford it, and I will drown you in perma...

By now the mycelium fungi network in the soil is clearly taking over!

New exotic fruits make their first appearance at Sesbania!

Introducing special diversity and attracting the real workers (pollinators)

Within two years of planting!

At the 6 months and at the one year mark, resp. Our hardy pioneer and drought resistant Sesbania Grandiflora species providing much needed Nitrogen around its companion trees.