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In central Portugal we had 8 students for two weeks doing the 72 hour pdc (in Portuguese) at Quinta de Fontanheira and Quinta do Boiço with Chris Ripley and Anne Johnston. 

Work share initiative between three farms in central Portugal

Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design A digitally connected integrated approach   This pathway has been forged in response to questions both in myself from my experience of the Diploma process, along with feedback and suggestions from both past and present Diploma students.  These question...

This exciting plan was the dream of Jude Watson. During the gathering of 2010 we shared this dream with Dr Ana Brandao, a key note speaker on sacred geometry and Feng Shui. She accepted this project and spent one weekend later that year incorporating these principles into the garden design. The...

At Jaspers Village we are developing a sustainable conscious living community with each individual's living area dedicated to permoculture design and practices. Our main service to the public is a health and wellness retreat renowned for serving only organic whole food.

Purchased a 3m x 3m garden shed and installed in zone 1 not far from house site, then worked out that'll give us 9m square x by the annual rainfall 558mm x 0.9 = 4,519 litres of possible rainwater. So with that info decided on installing a 4,000 litre tank which i'll be able to use in a gravity ...

Hi this is the first thing i started in my family home garden. I was eager and lacking the best mulch so i improvised with lots of newspapers. Since then i have added more natural mulch with plastic bags filled with green/brown waste from my neighbours' doorstep. OH well one's rubbish, my gain!

The start of urban permaculture for my family home. The plan is a complete revamp to be truly sustainable but it has to be proven in steps otherwise the folks freak out!

  Facing northwest on a gentle slope, in the centre of Chão Sobral, near a secondary valley where chestnuts used to grow, under cherry trees you find the "house of the people", that's the project "zone 0". About 49m2, 3 walls buried in the slope and the front wall as a garage door and a big wind...

3.5 acre permaculture demonstration and education site

The Newforest Institute is an educational non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the traditional balance between people, communities, and the land. Newforest serves as a northeast hub for permaculture and maintains a teaching and demonstration facility located on 300 acres of forests, fie...

  What is the indigenous economy anyway, and why can’t ecologists and businessmen, escape needing to learn about a nomadic hunter gatherer economy?   The obvious answer to the question of why anybody living in Australia, can hardly expect to escape learning the indigenous economy, is that ...

Individuality versus collectivism.   The issue of individuality versus collectivism in human society is one which has long been at the forefront of discourse about how we form intentional communities.  What is going to work, in what ways need we be more communal, and in what was need we be...

Who are we when we interact within indigenous culture?   Who am I to you, for me to think it could be beneficial for you to read my essay?  Who are you to me, that I wrote the essay with an audience of permaculture teachers in mind?  I am worth being who wrote this, am I more than just ano...

  Like with every culture, indigenous Australian culture is kept stable in its expressions, by basic good manners.   My basic premise in writing this essay, is that the answer to the question at the start, is that “yes” it is very important for all ecologist’s work to be in alignment with...

  Indigenous culture is not homogenous.            We can hear the chorus of voices, “but we never presumed that indigenous culture was homogenous”, and maybe nobody had.  Maybe nobody is to blame, for the fact that mainstream Australian culture, and all the cultures accepted in the main...