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Fall 2011 Planting Update

Fred Tanner
Just planted the Fall edible plantings of gogi berries, jujubes, serviceberries, american persimmons, goumi berries and additional black currants. The black currants seem to be hardier than the red variety and not as appealing to the grasshoppers that love to eat the red currant foliage. Need to ...
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Chapter 4

David Braden
Chapter 4   Every Dollar your neighborhood saves producing something for yourselves, is a Dollar that can be invested in more capacity to produce for yourselves. That is the feed back loop that will bring our systems back from the brink of disaster.   The problems we face are systemi...
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1st PDC as a teacher over and done!

andy macey
After starting the week with a lesson on water harvesting, the PDC moved to focus on the students design time. My role was one of support and mentorship to the 25 guys, broken by a few lessons and some site visits. It was great to see the students start to really piece it together over several ...
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Gaia Radio: And Interview with Charles Eisenstein

Grifen Hope
Gaia Radio: And Interview with Charles Eisenstein Enviado por Grifen Hope el Jue, 08/12/2011 - 01:48.  gaia radio gaia university Start: 13/12/2011 - 10:00End: 13/12/2011 - 11:30 Charles Eisenstein | Sacred Economics Thrive Now Webinar series: An ...
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Film, Permaculture & Melbourne

Nikita Vout
So the other part of my dreams beside creating and owning a productive permaculture food forest is also to work in film. I think I've got the right idea because for a naturally fussy person who doesn't want to work in just anything I don't even care if I'm simply running errands or making coffee ...
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ABC Rural Talks to Matt Kilby About Farm Restoration Through Installing Trees and Swales (Podcast).

Nick Huggins
      Matt Kilby, the ‘man of a thousand trees‘, shares thoughts with ABC Rural on his work (with Nick Huggins alongside) over the last 18 months at Nambrock, a property in Gippsland, southern Victoria, Australia. Read more here.
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Seed saving gets political

Wendy Howard
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Pond expansion

Wendy Howard
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Making yoghurt

Wendy Howard
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PermaNegev

Raed Al Mickawi
In a world that overuses resources to near exhaustion, there is a need for a new kind of thinking and planning for our generation and those that follow. Bedouin communities in the Negev have been using innovative techniques for sustainable development for centuries. One such skill is permaculture...
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Reinventing Roots

Reinventing Roots
Reinventing Roots is a small-scale BOT (Build Operate Transfer) devoted to helping develop economic and social empowerment through sustainable education to the general public and underprivileged communities, with a specific focus on indigenous peoples facing the struggle of assimilation.
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Garlic & Onion Harvest

Mark Brown
Our garlic and onions have been harvested ans stored. We found that the onions matured early this year and it was an unexpected complication when we had wet weather just at the wrong time. Some garlic was collected before the rain came but most was still in the ground when down it came. We hung ...
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Permaculture Principle: Recurve Archery

DJ Swan™
Along with my Permaculture Design Certificate, I'm working through certification in Level 1 and Level 2 Archery Instruction. Currently, I offer recurve archery residencies. View my target practice here: Balance between tension and relaxation Discipline the mind and calm the soul Achieve ...
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Free Permaculture

Grifen Hope
Help us to Free Permaculture Permaculture is already wild ... now you can make it free. Since 2008 we have been running transformative learning events, otherwise know as the PDC, here in Chile. Since this time almost 400 people from all over Chile and Latin America have graduated with a...
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Fremantle, Western Australia 10 week PDC Saturdays from the 4th of February - 7th April. Taking registrations now!

Charlie Jones
Register now for the 2012 Summer PDC in Fremantle, Western Australia. Taught by Brooke 'Sparkles' Murphy, Charlie Jones and special guest permaculture pioneer, Greg Knibbs. Held every Saturday from Feb 7th at FERN Community Garden in Fremantle. Contact [email protected] for bookings.
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Permanents Gardens

Hubert de Kalbermatten
A total width of 12 meters. Two greenhouses of 6 meters wide, which are glued A length of 39 meters A height of 3.5 meters or 4. An area of 468 square meters and A total width of 15 meters. A length of 24 meters A height of 6.5 meters An area of 360 square meters The assignment of the premise...

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Implementing Trainee Teacher Scheme

Hedvig Murray
and now I'm implementing it at Brighton Permaculture Trust!
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Update - No Dig Beds

Mark Brown
Then  and  Now  
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