El Pedregal is a 9 ha permaculture project in its first stages of development. The main focus of the project is in food forests based on native species.
The Inland Northwest Permaculture Conference (INWPC) is coming together for an epic good time and community-building learning experience the weekend of November 4-6, 2011. This first ever gathering is in Spokane, WA but we're expecting to have other communities host similar events yearly. With ...
Planting Natasha's trees was my first act of permaculture since the course. She gave me a tree to put in my own yard, so it will be the first step to adding more edibles in my urban yard.
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Composting is probably a generally
accepted and usually enthusiastically applied method among
permaculturists to process all kinds of organic materials. All
organic processes in our immediate environment produce extra material
to make compost of. But it seems that many still do not see
thems...
Greetings!
For those of you who have joined us at Http://sacredpermaculture.net, we have our first topic available for discussion on our site. As of October 10, 2011, the bi-weekly topic is: Creating new symbols and archtypes for modern sustainable living...blending the sacred with permaculture....
We are a family of three
looking for a large parcel of land in the country with house (minimum 2
bedroom) and fresh water source (spring, stream, creek, river, well) to buy in
zone 5-6-7. We plan to raise goats primarily.
We are
college educated, energetic, highly motivated, self-starters...
Dates are 7 - 19 January 2012.
Full price $900, half price $450. If you have already done a PDC we value your experiences and input and would love to have you on board. Also wwoofing possibilities to cut the cost even further.... A great chance to network, refresh your skills and enthusiasm whi...
I have very sandy soil on my site, so run-off is rarely a problem. Excessive soil drainage is. I am increasing the organic content of my soils, but several days of no rain still means drought in my garden/fruit plantings.
Does anyone have advice for increasing water holding capacity in water ha...
It's been interesting to observe the autumn traffic of organic materials, especially dead leaves, fallen and pruned branches, withering flowers and anything else that's not lawn being removed from peoples front and back yards for dumping elsewhere. Well, where I live everyone takes these material...
At Project ENERGY EFFICIENCY COALITION and CROATIAN CENTER of RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES, we believe that giving turns ordinary money into change, a change for the better. That's why we ask each of our CCRES partner to think about what they can do in their community to give. Whether it's volunt...
What to do with the old branches? Well, Eenie-Bob who's been helping out for a month had an idea...
First he dug a bit of a hole at the end of one of our 1 plow furrow/small sloped svale...
Then he stuffed in a bunch of branches which we had pruned from the orchard during spring...
Then a ...
