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Weekend Work Days for August

Frank Cetera
Alchemists, this will be another work weekend at Otisco, particularly as we are gearing up prep for the Home HeadQuarters Block Blitz in just a few weeks. Tasks will include: > Removing Shingles from exterior > Transporting materials and supplies from inside of the house to the Gear Fact...
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Weekend Work Days

Frank Cetera
Alchemists, this will be another work weekend at Otisco, particularly as we are gearing up prep for the Home HeadQuarters Block Blitz in just a few weeks. Tasks will include: > Removing Shingles from exterior > Transporting materials and supplies from inside of the house to the Gear Fact...

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The Alchemical Nursery Project

The Alchemical Nursery Project
The Alchemical Nursery is a community benefits organization committed to the development of regenerative lifestyles and landscapes utilizing the principles and ethics of Permaculture, the Intentional Communities movement, Ecovillage living, and Mutual Aid activity. By providing educational resou...
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717 Otisco Street

717 Otisco Street
717 Otisco St is the site of an urban revitalization project, the renovation of a 2-story single family Victorian style home that has sat vacant for 5 years previous. The site will incorporate edible and perennial landscaping, natural building techniques, collective living, and will also house...
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reducing electric consumption

Sami email500@gmx.com
Yesterday I changed 10 halgon 50 watts to 12 watt yellow fluorescents (warm light energy saver) all by my self. I pulled out the circular frames of the halogens abd cut away their transformers then put in new screw type frames and energy saver bulbs I bought earlier.   I plan to change the res...
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About Village Homes in Davis California

Sami email500@gmx.com
I wanted to know about that urban sustainable village where they were swinging on their hammocks and listening to music. I was thinking maybe I could visit or live there or a similar place for a while. So I went to youtube and found the video: Global Gardener - Urban part 2 http://www.youtube.co...
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Hanuman's Garden

Hanuman's Garden
Ongoing development of a 5 acre urban permaculture farm in Taos, New Mexico. this farm will grow food for both the Hanuman temple and to sell in town. It will be an active demonstration site and educational facility promoting permaculture and sustainable practices.
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Jasper Place (High School) Permaculture

Jasper Place (High School) Permaculture
An urban food forest in the centre of a large high school.
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Wood Chips

Millie Hrdina
Story and more photos to come

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Intensive Straw Bale Workshop Crete

maria baltazzi
While giving special emphasis on building with strawbales, living (green) roof construction and clay rendering, we will explore other natural building techniques and their appropriate application. Straw bale construction is an excellent building method that provides great benefits in terms of sav...
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The Permaculture Research Institute of ...

The Permaculture Research Institute of Hellas (Greece)
We are a non-profit organisation committed to delivering world class education in permaculture and the skills with which to empower people to make a difference.
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Permaculture Student Intern turned Assistant and Upcoming PDC with Robyn Francis and Cathe’ Fish

Stephanie Ladwig-Cooper
I've been marketing an upcoming Permaculture Design Course (PDC) for my own PDC instructor and mentor Cathe' Fish.  Cathe' and world renown permaculture educator, Robyn Francis of Australia, will be co-teaching a 13 day PDC intensive this October. (Seriously, someone pinch me!) Cathe' an...
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polyculture garlic

Mark Brown
Polyculture garlic. Poking through the Vetch and Heartsease is this years garlic. This is a secondary post on our garlic crop and how we bring it to harvest.I hope to explain in this post about the polyculture in a mono looking crop. In the first instance the young garlic sp...
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Holistic Farm Management

Martyn  Noakes
We've just completed our first face to face session of our Hiolistic Farm Management Course.  The course so far has covered an intrioduction to the soil, mineral and solar cycle, the importance of dynamic communities and basics of holistic thinking. The three most important things we took away f...
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Construção da sala de aula do TRANS

Suzana Maringoni
Estávamos precisando de uma sala de aula no espaço do TRANS, o projeto deveria ser coerente com a permacultura. Assim optamos por estrutura de madeira, cobertura de telhas de tetrapack reciclado, vidros reaproveitados, paredes de pau-a-pique duplo. A água é de chuva, reservada numa cisterna de f...

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John Nzira Needs Help! Please consider

Erle Rahaman-Noronha
http://urbanfarming.yolasite.com/biographies.phpand his address is belowJohn Nzira Phone: 0737175232E-mail: [email protected] My name is Kimberly Daniels. I work with a non-profit communitydevelopment organization based in the U.S. In October/November 2009, Iparticipated in a 2-week Permacultu...
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Volunteer opportunities in the Amazon...

Cynthia Robinson
This fall we have one of our traveling Permaculture instructors, Kyle Murray, visiting as a special guest volunteer coordinator guiding work-study volunteers in some amazing projects. This is an opportunity to learn in action. Volunteers are required to stay for  a minimum of 10 days during this ...

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Spring = growth!

Anselm Ibing
The below pictures were taken during a check-up trip in April 2011 - to see how things are going & to ensure the irrigation system was installed properly, since summer was coming near. Much to my surprise, a few almond trees were already bearing fruit!! And little green shoots had started co...

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