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continuing my permaculture education

andy macey
One of my real weak spots in Permaculture design is actually drawing the design, I've never been great at drawing but this is an area that is of great importance if I am to present a client with a clear plan and design. In order to (hopefully) remedy this situation I have just arrived at Djanbun...
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Tilling Mule Traction with Antonio da Rosa and Jorge

João Gonçalves
Helder and Jorge (leading) sowing barley and wheat in between olive trees   Mr. Antonio throwing the grain, sowing barley mixed with wheat, over the soil previously tilled by the tractor this "mule traction" workshop by Mr. Antonio and Mr. Jorge was a special opportunity to learn and pract...
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Garden Irrigation Update

Landcraft Permaculture ...... Paul Boundy
My studies were finishing for the year and I had some spare time so I keenly volunteered to coordinate the project with garden members volunteering to take on tasks they were interested in and could manage. Our first major break-through came when we rallied together at a Sunday working b...
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Mudlark Permaculture

Mudlark Permaculture
Mudlark Permaculture is an Urban Permaculture Demonstration site on half an acre. Our intention is to live, teach and demonstrate Permaculture ethics and principles in action, and to empower our community into a future of low energy living.
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Floresta

Floresta
O Sitio "Floresta", consiste num espaço de 8.000m² concebido e manejado conforme os principios éticos e metodológicos da permacultura. Tem como objetivo tornar-se uma Unidade Demontrativa em Permacultura na Região Metropolitana de Fortaleza.
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Just received our semester funding!

Robert Meyer
"WE HAVE RECEIVED OUR $1,400 BUDGET FROM RUTGERS!!! WE ARE PlANNING OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE SEMESTER TO PLAN THIS FOREST GARDEN.....STAY TUNED!!!"   RIPE
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Buccleauch Park Permaculture Garden (R....

Buccleauch Park Permaculture Garden (R.I.P.E.)
The Rutgers Initiative for Permaculture Education or RIPE , hopes to empower students and their community by educating them about how low to no tech solutions as well as Permaculture design principles can be viable, safe and most importantly fun for producing food and stimulating local self suff...
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Site Survey - FAIL

Sheila Hunkin
My trip to Ananda Gradinka to tweak elements of the survey I carried out in October perfectly coincided with the arrival of the first proper snow of this winter. I may be a lightweight, but I didn't feel up to digging through knee deep snow to get soil samples. Or tramping the land with my dowsi...
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Greeks reclaim the land to ease the pain of economic austerity

maria baltazzi
‘If we want to survive on this land we must first help to heal the earth,’ said Nicola Netién, agro-ecologist, teacher and co-creator of the NGO Permaculture Research Institute Hellas. He was talking to a group of some fifty people of all ages who had gathered for two days of workshops on...
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Ananda Gradinka

Ananda Gradinka
A permaculture smallholding and educational centre in early stages of development
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Shikigami

Shikigami
Forest gardening, foraging, natural farming, deep ecology, re-wilding, anarchy.
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Sadhana Forest Haiti

Sadhana Forest Haiti
The focus of Sadhana Forest Haiti is water conservation, indigenous re-forestation, organic food growth and the development of ongoing projects to support the needs of the local community in an environmentally sustainable way. We practice an eco-friendly way of life including veganism, organic fo...
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New Permaculture Design Course coming up!

Hannes Dettmann
Where? Sadhana Forest, Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India When? May 1st - July 27th 2012 Language? The Course will be taught in English Cost? The Course will be free of charge. Accomodation will be provided in exchange for 25 hours of work per week. We ask for a minor contribution to cover the food ...

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Pumping water

Victor Barahona
In Permaculture Aralar have significant height differences, so it is necessary to pump water. We have tried to take advantage of gravity and as result we are able to irrigate 1 / 3 of the site at the moment. In the future we will extend this capability to higher places using renewables. We show n...
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Earthway Experience Permaculture Center

Earthway Experience Permaculture Center
Earthway Experience is a Permaculture Demonstration and Learning Center.
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Malin's hermitage, educational permacul...

Malin's hermitage, educational permaculture farm, Romania
Since 2007. Adriana and me, Philippe, are restoring a 8ha farm completely isolated in a wooded valley in northern Romania: forests, pastures and orchards We have a rural touristic lodge with 20 beds and want to become an educational farm in permaculture, self-sufficient for the families who liv...
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Applied Environmental Management

Landcraft Permaculture ...... Paul Boundy
My plan is to contribute, facilitate and lead their programs in various sustainable programs such as bush conservation, waste management, water management and energy management. I see this is as implementing permaculture in a business environment. I've selected a fulltime schedule which is 12-15...

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January Classes

Alan Sharp
We held our January monthly lectures on patterns. A lot of patterns can be found in the local traditions here, and are still practised by natural farmers. Everyone has their unique patterns for farming but follow some general ones. More on some of these hopefully in th...

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