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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

An urban food forest in the centre of a large high school.

Story and more photos to come

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...