The first two TLUD Biochar stoves arrived by plane to Slovenia in march 2011 and another 30 came by sea in august 2011. Now I am introducing the biochar and bichar stove concept to gardeners and farmers - both through my blog and through written articles. I am well avare that it will take some ti...

Natural and holistic alternatives to beekeeping with focus on European honey bee (apis mellifera).

We arrived at the Pygmy village, looking forward to working all day with the women until all the raised beds were ready, as Chizungu had assured us. But there was nobody to be found except the youngest children and one woman taking care of them. With Jeph's help translating, we talked with her...

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 ...

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....

I have been drawing a map of our garden.The borders and the buildings are on scale, the rest I drew by heart so it is an estimation. I will also add some photos of the back garden, front garden, sunny and misty weather, odd hedges and vegetable garden...

One small house and many outbuildings on 1.5 acres of grass and 5.5 acres of mixed cold temperate forest.

One of the firsts steps in the planned design for this awesome space. The clean-up of the surroundings, and specially the roof of a structure that was asking aloud for it (almost colapsing due to the amount of cassuarina material accumulated during a period of 20 years), made available quite a l...

This is the first major stage of our property plan, the beds are being filled up with a rich, loamy soil that has silted up the spring fed dam.The house is sitting on a large slab of rock, the backyard in patchy grass on 2-7cms on soil(much erroded from January's rainfall events) on this rock she...

Ranch of the Seven Rays is a 180 acre property in the Sierra Foothills near Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park.

The day started out lazy and slow, as it was hot and humid, but after 15 minutes things started looking very promising... almost 30 women were working away, loosening the soil in preparation for building the raised beds!! We hadn't seen this positive energy since the first day when we made co...

Transition Initiative focused on Holistic Healing, Natural Nutrition and Earth Care

Planetary Permaculture Pilgrimage   A once in a lifetime opportunity to do advanced study with many of the greatest teachers of permaculture.    Australian Learning Adventure Information   Delvin and Tamara have finished Geoff Lawton’s teacher training and are enjoying Robin’s 6 day creat...

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The primary goal of this project is to green the Carrizo Plain through reforestation. It may be impossible to create an abundant food forest due to the salted landscape dominated by Soda Lake and extreme weather conditions, however it is desired to at least be able to support around a 10% fruit/n...

Implementation of a property design and community cooperation

In early march I started by planting garlic, sjalots, peas and fava beans. The next weeks and months I sowed onions, swiss chard, mixed salad leaves, rucola, radishes, spinach, beets, brocolli, brussels sprouts, carrots, kohlrabi, turnips courgettes and runner beans. From april till the end of ju...

http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/14/114-year-old-electric-car-gets-same-40-miles-to-the-charge-as-chevy-volt/   http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/05/the-status-quo-of-electric-cars-better-batteries-same-range.html