TO KEEP WITH POPULATION GROWTH,   MORE FOOD WILL HAVE TO BE PRODUCED WORLDWIDE OVER THE NEXT 50 YEARS  THAN HAS BEEN DURING THE PAST 10 000 YEARS  COMBINED.     WE HAVE PLEASURE IN ENCLOSING AQUAPONICS     CCRES AQUAPONICS

A 1 ha permaculture farm with livestock, fish ponds and forest gardens.

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The Ecovillage of Sieben Linden is a social and ecological settlement in north-eastern Germany (former German Democratic Republic, GDR). Although the concept for this Ecovillage came up around 1989, the piece of land for the final settlement was found in 1997. Here we continue to build the Ecovi...

Thanks to Christina, Erik, Lamia, Kristen and Jeremy for their participation in the subtitles of the complete Geoff Lawton video Greening the desert II. The movie shows the come back, 9 years later, of Geoff Lawton and his wife in the most arid desert on earth in Jordania, in a place they shaped ...

“Water Retention Landscapes as an Answer to Desertification and Globalization” Second International Water Symposium in Tamera, April 27th– 29th, 2012 http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=808&L=0 Tamera has invited water specialists and policy makers of many countries. Examples like the wa...

“Water Retention Landscapes as an Answer to Desertification and Globalization” Second International Water Symposium in Tamera, April 27th– 29th, 2012 http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=808&L=0 Tamera has invited water specialists and policy makers of many countries. Examples like the wat...

Long Valley Farm (LVF) has about 5ha of un-irrigated Kikuyu (Penesetum) and Kweek (Cynodon) old pastures that we would like to convert to long term afroforestry with timber, nut and fruit baring trees, with alley crops in-between the tree rows. The layout is on contour, legumes above the swales, ...

We appreciate any tips on our draft plan for our zones. We intent to do the swales and plant trees of zone 3 before spring. The column of trees and swales is actually double what is drawn.

Daily we check the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) website to see how much rain has fallen in Wagin the day before; Wagin is 25km up the road from our property but the closest point to us the BOM collects data. Apart from a 3 week spell of only 2ml falling there had been steady rain each week over th...

weekend blitz at my house;have to get my place cleaned up finished and sold ASAP. This is not a permaculture site. This is suburban site between bribane and ipswitch. All help is appreciated and there will be cold beer and coke and pizza. If you think you can make it please let me know so that i ...

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The website is Palletjunkie.webs.com and shows pictures of all the items we are re-purposing on the farm.   The pallet fencing idea I got from Paul Wheaton youtube video with a woman in Washington. They work great and only take a couple screws to hold them together which are easily removed for ...

I'm developing assess the impact of permaculture on small farmers. I'm hoping to partner with permaculture/agroecology NGOs to investigate the impacts of involvement with permaculture on smallholder food security, climate resilience, and social networks.  What organizations might make good resea...

The Econ Farm is an educational setting ideal for learning and growth.

Project plans for the public inquiry of the various constructions The greenhouse A The greenhouse B The dryer The building in the ground straw