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...

Dancing TreePeople's mission is to embody and demonstrate the principles of permaculture. In addition to our growing operation, we offer transformative workshops, tours of our orchard/garden, publications and materials focused on personal and cultural transformation, and permaculture busi...

 Just spent most of Aug finishing the ground floor frame and ceiling/ upstairs floor. Really hard work for three not very strong people. The local chestnut that we are using is being a real pleasure to work with. This year, finally, there is a floor upstairs and it's a lot less draughty downstair...

Thanks to Simone ed Elena http://brianzorigeni.blogspot.com/ the compost toilet is finished,we hope in a brilliant future!! The finished compost toilet using reused materials. It is very important today to understand that using flush toilets using fresh water is not civilized. This is ...

"Aldeia De Sonho with subtitles" / "The Dream Village with subtitles" http://vimeo.com/18727305 During this documentary film the project facilitators, as such but also as members of the village, interacted with neighbors to create contexts and conversations, for sharing food, ideas, dreams, pro...

Urban Greening is a non-profit organisation which trains communities and schools in Permaculture techniques

The PDC on Mallorca Sept. 27 to Oct 12 with Darren Doherty, Richard Perkins and Julio Cantos has now been lowered to € 800 from €1100. See details on http://www.openworldcafe.com/

Development of small experimental farm using permaculture. farm is for experimentation, demonstration and education.

We are pushing the envelope on the principle of multiple functions. All Aussies will surely want to learn about our recent discoveries. Read more at:  http://ecothriftydoup.blogspot.com/2011/09/multiple-functions.html   Peace N3

Each month we will be showing a movie from the list of great presentations out there. We hope to bring more subjects as time and availability allow. There is no charge for the film night but people are asked to bring some supper to share and an open mind. Discussion will follow the film so issu...