The first of two permaculture introduction classes was held last Friday.We had 8 people attend the two hour talk on the need for permaculture; the basic ethics and principles; emphasising the tradition and culture here, in Japan, and to learn from these; along with examples of permaculture in pra...

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I've just heard Bill Mollison say in the DVD he's teaching with Geoff Lawton that if we manage to catch as much of the energy flow as possible, we'll doing efficient systems. Of course with time, that will lead us to good designers. A pond is one of the options we have when it comes to store rain...

Abundant organic materials let's no other chance than make use of them :) One of the neighbours cleans some stables, and there's plenty of straw mixed with horse manure and urine..all around there are plenty of so called weeds (many of them can be eaten as well) and a lot of grass clippings from...

Compost Toilets, as far as i feel and think, one of the most important implementations anyone can do in it's place to start changing the way things go in relation to energy usage (and wastage). How important it is, specially in this case, to use as wise and effeciently as possible the resources w...

We are about 10 active people from Hamburg and started our work 3 weeks ago. First we started to make the garden accessable by clearing the overgrown pathways and terrases near around the house. Then we began to harvest apples and finished with about 2 tons yield last weekend. We dug earth cella...

So we’re creating a forest garden – a lush, shady place, dripping with fruit and springing with herbs, flowers and tubers. But when you think of a forest garden, do you think of paths, their construction, and their capabilities? Or do you just figure you’ll wind your way through the gre...

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl     The six participants of the Urban Permaculture Course, ‘Farming the City Block’, will present their design which aims to get the most from the all the resources found in a city block   For more details please visit www.gaiaveda.co.uk ...

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl     The six participants of the Urban Permaculture Course, ‘Farming the City Block’, will present their design which aims to get the most from the all the resources found in a city block   For more details please visit www.gaiaveda.co.uk ...

  After I took my PDC and began the journey into and beyond sustainablity, I realized that I know very little and that there are many in the world who know much more than I do.  Since moving to Costa Rica, I have watched so many foriegners come here and declare that they knew more and that they n...

This is not about peak oil, or climate change, or economic collapse, although, any or all of those may cause significant problems. This is about building the world you want to live in, whether or not there are problems.   We are all, already, engaged in a set of interactions with the peo...

We work on a traditional subsistence agricultural land, converting it into a self sustained food forest, situated in northern Tunisia (Ras Jebel)

Re- posted from my 'Balcony garden dreaming' blog of August 2011 Quirky Doorstep Garden designers of Sydney - I found one! If you want to meet unique people, then do quirky things. Here is how I met Steve, a young daddy of 4 and a real, culture-creating Start-At-Your-Doorstep Design...

Eastern North America's largest and best developped commercial food forest permaculture orchard.

Swifts are building their nests and Kookaburras are teaching their young to hunt.Apples and Plums have set.I hope I can beat the Possums to the harvest.Lupins,Hairy Vetch,Clover and silver wattle are in flower here at Tiger Hill.The Gourse in the area is also flowering and such a beautiful sight....

For so long I have wanted to recycle what I could but sharing homes with people made it not so easy as they didn't understand and always equated it only to house rubbish.Not to say this is bad but I have always looked at recycling on a much bigger scale and not having my own place before made it ...

7 of my blog readers responded to my invitation to experiment with biochar compost fertility. At first glance it is clear that we are a very interesting, colorful bunch, with different amount of experience and knowledge, but we all love to work in the garden, and share enthusiasm for learning a...