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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...

And then it was time to test the swales - we made sure to be there when the forecast said "heavy rains" - and they were heavy. The first two pics show how a swale fills up within seconds, then how our weakest swale, that received most water (it's a slightly longer story, and was a big mistake...)...

Below you see a few images of the land itself - on the right bank of the wadi, with the pre-existing forestation project at the far right and the old Ottoman canal visible at the edge, too - then our blessed naïvité of levelling with an A-Frame (Dan in action), the digging of our swales, the firs...

The Alchemical Nursery and the Rahma Free Clinic will establish a "Snack Garden" on an unused portion of land adjacent to the clinic building, on clinic owned land at 3100 South Salina Street, Syracuse, NY. The Snack Garden will provide fresh healthy food for the community to self-har...

How to grow a forest in the desert with less than 150ml of rain a year? With little experience, but high motivation, three young permies set off to plant a 2.5 hectare forest in the desert on the Jordan/Syria border - with the help of dozens of volunteers.

The long awaited PDC course, the first one in Finland probably for 15 years, just finished in Turku. It's been great to see things build up little by little and finally have a full PDC course to contribute to. So far most people (including myself) have had to go abroad to get the first immersion ...

I have begun my diploma, and went to a two day (instead of two hour) orientation with a wonderful support group of thirteen other new students, all under the guidance of Richard Perkins. This is going to be a real life enhancing two years. Updates including links to my website coming soon!

THE VALUE OF THE HOME GARDEN

It's been a while since I've provided news here of my horizontal top bar bee hive. So a brief summary is in order. First, the size of the colony has grown dramatically - through winter. Secondly, it's been producing large amounts of honey and wax. I've been harvesting every 3 or 4 weeks because t...