We made another visit to Gocha Primary on September 10th to see if they had progressed with their garden. I really wanted to get a photo of water in the tank. The problem is that every time it has rained they have been immediately using the water, not for their garden but for mixing mud t...

I had a surplus of bean seedlings towards the end of the sowing season this year. I also had squash seedlings looking for homes. This feature (see illustration) was made using pallet slats screwed together to form a triangular raised bed about 1' wide, around the base of a pear tree. The bed also...

Over many years I have used a variety of structures to make compost from green waste. Lawrence D Hills, my guru during my early gardening years insisted that slatted timber sides with a ventilated base, idealy using bricks, were "de rigeur". In contrast, I have found thet the best compost results...

Invite to Join the San Mateo County Permaculture Guild - Willi Paul, Organizer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rj7mdMvVrg

Friends and family got together to get manure in the soil using manual light tools and prepare it for the maize, potato and vegetable crops. The terraces on this steep slope land makes it possible to grow organically rich soil as every spring loads of matured manure of goats and sheeps are added...

VegeStation is fortunate enough to be within 1/2 mile of a factory which does print finishing and disposes of numerous pallets, cardboard sheets and various other materials. Being the architypal scrounger and always on the look-out for useful "waste", I have found ways to make use of these materi...

Once the IBC was installed, another WWOOFer, Kewin, from France created some steps using car tyres and stones which provide access to the rear of the greenhouse, for maintenance.

Large domestic garden growing vegetables and fruit

Please join me and/or pass this on to any and all ecologically minded people you know. I'd love to meet you or them at one of the events on my West Coast Book Tour. ?9/24 Boulder, UT, all-day workshop, True Nature Farm 9/26-29 Portland, OR, annual ARCSA conference 9/28 Portland, OR, 6:30pm pre...

Documenting the setting up of our new way of life on our 1 hectare of land in the Tuscan hills using the principles of permaculture.

One acre urban homestead with the first examples of our famous urbanite terraces, plus orchards, vineyards, ponds.

Pollytunnel up for the winter. Many plans for the inside, will keep updating on progress.

The HCC Sustainability Network facilitates connections and professional networks between ecologically minded individuals and projects, organizations, and colleges in the Pioneer Valley.

On September 24th we hosted the Transition Towns - Maitland "Day of Action" in association with the 350.org group. To herald the spring equinox we invited people to find a way to get to Purple Pear Farm by means that impacted less on the parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere. People we...

No Dig Beds We have been busy at Purple pear preparing for the summer crops. I have decided to start some "no dig" beds a the sides of the mandalas to utilize the space but as the ground has not had the benifits if the fertility provided by the dome rotation I thought the no dig would add organi...

Rehabilitation of 248 hectare farm with silvipasture of sheep among olives and with large areas of Eucalyptus globulus monoculture. The latter is being eradicated.

PERMACULTURE IN PATAGONIA...what could be more amazing!  TreeYo Permaculture and Estancia Ranquilco are offering a 16-Day Permaculture Design Certification Course (Nov. 15 - Dec. 1, 2011) as well as an 8-week Permaculture Certification Internship (Jan. 3 - February 28, 2012) in Patagonia, A...

Os integrantes do IPEPA, Jopa, Ricardo, Daniel, Martin e Carla participaram recentemente do 23º Seminário Regional de Agrobiodiversidade promovido pela AS-PTA e em parceria com os grupos de agricultores e agricultoras da regiões Centro Sul do Paraná e Planalto Norte Catarinense. Este evento oco...