Through this unique course participants will embark on a study of urban Permaculture design based on Matt Morton’s concept of ‘farming the city block’. The idea of city block design is to look not only at our own private gardens but also the combined central space created by the blocks on which w...

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First month into my Diploma, my brain aches and i can hear the rust crust breaking inside my head. I guess that means it will get better soon... Looking forward to it!

Planted out our pioneer trees,128 Acacia saligna seedlings around proposed food forest area, to act as a wind break and to help stabilise soil as well as adding much needed nitrogen these plants will get the last of the rain and then wil need to be hand watered through their first summer.They we...

We just finished the second day of our PDC. What a great thing - I am thinking that when it comes to classifying permaculturalists, this group would be under the "pragmatic" category.  Every student is mature, has a wealth of life experience, has taken a broad range of paths but all share a grea...

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The permaculture project is incorporated into the Hakuna Matata project, an NGO that looks after orphaned children. Through using the permaculture approach, the project tries to become self sufficient and not rely on outside donor money for the provision of food and shelter.

In June, students underwent the PRI’s first Urban Landscape Design Course which aimed at formulating the skills required to successfully transfer the theoretical knowledge of Permaculture into a professional, efficient and effective small business operation. The course was an intensive 5-day, 12h...

Finally we've finished building the round window that closes the crown hole in the middle of the roof. Real pleasure to do it on a very rainy day knowing that at last the rain is going to stay out. Nine pieces of wood, seven stripes of cooper and a 1.4 m diameter piece of perspex made the imposs...

We have just completed a three week PDC in Mitchells Plein Cape Town. (It is called an APT) SEED hosted the course, and Wendy Crawford and I co-facilitated on a collaborative course. Students from as far as Finland, Switzerland, Kwa Zulu, Free State and Cape Town attended. Many participants were ...

Fruit Tree Guilds There are many fruit trees among the beds of the mandala garden. We have around thirty as part of ours and this is a sizable orchard in it's own right let alone as part of the garden.The fruit trees generally are placed in the space where the mandalas touch each other, in the...

  Let's say you live in a typical American subdivision built in the last 30 years, maybe one that looks something like this:     If you do, you probably know there's no topsoil.  But there was topsoil before that virgin prairie/forest was flattened to make garages for SUV's and safety playg...

With the help of organic farming experts, community leaders and volunteers, we help start-up small vegetable gardens in village homes, provide seeds and permaculture training to local people which enables them to grow their own organic veg and fruits in their own premises. More nutritional foo...

After a long haul we finally got the Bendigo Bank to fund our eco-village project to get it through the final stages for sub division.  A bit scary, but hugely exciting as it feels like we cant have any more set backs andit is up to us to make it work.  Most of the 18 lots are now accounted for...

Whenever we decide to start gardening we come up against challenges, usually brought about by peoples understanding of the way things should be.  For example, the neighbours might get annoyed by the untidy look of a permaculture garden, or perhaps insted of understanding a particular garden nitch...

Tending the Soul's Garden is dedicated to cultivating the soil of our inner garden so that we may bring forth abundance in our lives and our world. The project is afiliated with Dancing TreePeople Farm. We offer permaculuture publications and materials focused on personal and cultural tra...