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Companion planting

Wendy Howard
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Applied Watershed Restoration Course near Santa Fe, NM - Oct 2011!

Craig Sponholtz
Applied Watershed Restoration Course - this course is designed specifically for landowners, farmers, and advanced students of permaculture. Check out the full course description, curriculum and details on the location here: www.drylandsolutions.com - click on "Education." 4-day course will be hel...
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The Business of Consultation - David Spicer & Nick Huggins Out on the Job

Nick Huggins
by Nick Huggins I just purchased a farm in the New South Wales Southern Tablelands, 30min south of Goulburn and 50min east of Canberra, the Australian Capital, and a good friend of mine and of permaculture, David Spicer, has set his sights on the development of his consultancy business in the ...
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Introduction to permaculture course photo album

Pietro Zucchetti
The 26 students have been the first in Italy to partecipate to an international recognise permaculture course by the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia founded by Bill Mollison and by the Permaculture Association of Britain. Above:The start of the course in t...
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Growing Annual Vegetables CD Rom: review

Kirsten Bradley
So we’re sitting at the kitchen table, planning our market garden with Joyce and Mike from Allsun Farm, and Joyce suddenly looks at me sharply: “you’ve seen our vegetable growing CD ROM, haven’t you?” Erm, no? With forewords by Eliot Coleman (international edition) and Peter Cundall (A...
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2011-2012 "Growing Food in the City" Series is Coming

Lisa Fernandes
Growing Food in the City is:... a series of events in/around Portland Maine from October 2011 - May 2012... a pilot for a loosely organized coordination of events/programs around a common themePlease see the Calendar for all events in this series (marked with a "GFITC" tag!)Goals: To facilit...
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2011-2012 Winter Weekend Permaculture Design Certificate Course in Maine

Lisa Fernandes
Please note: the April-September 2011 version of this course sold out with several on the waiting list.  Please let the organizer know as soon as you think you might want to hold a spot in this next run of the PDC here in Portland!     A one-weekend-per-month format for the internationally-reco...
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Bancos de Tiempo del Instituto Ná Lu´um

Tierra Martinez
Un banco del tiempo no es un banco en si, sino que es una herramienta solidaria por la cual usuarios pueden ofrecer o demandar productos o servicios sin que intervenga la moneda oficial del país.El banco del tiempo es una herramienta que fomenta de manera comunitaria servicios de cooperación y so...

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Asian Vegie Growing Workshop

Mariette Tuohey
Perennial Vegetables will give your garden longer term food security - no longer tied to only annual crops, spending time and effort growing perennials will crop year after year. Seila will go into the details of how to grow these food crops with actual examples growing in the garden. The class f...
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Volunteering at PermaLot Centre of Natural Building between 5/8 and 18/8 2011.

Max Vittrup Jensen
Do you need a break from the city? Want to experience life on a permaculture farm, get to know more about natural building and organic agriculture? We’ll be hosting a large international event in end of August, and we’re running behind with all of our chores!  We’re a Czech...

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Designers & Consultants Resources Page

Nick Huggins
Since I starting teaching at the PRI with the new Urban Landscape Design Course there have been calls to make the information from the course available to students and interested people out there in the world that can’t jump on a plane and get to The Channon.   Our fearless webmaster Craig Mack...

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Perennial Vegie Growing Workshop

Mariette Tuohey
Seila Hierk of PermaBlitz fame will run this workshop on Saturday 17 September from 10am at the Ashwood College Permaculture Food Garden. Class cost is $40 per person and bookings are essential via [email protected]. There will be an opportunity to buy at least some of the perennial vegies aft...
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Bringing Moisture Back to the Land

Craig Sponholtz
View this youtube video of Craig Sponholtz by Loa Tree Productions on Guiding Principles to Bring Moisture Back to the Land.  This five minute excerpt explains unique methods used to re-hydrate arid landscapes using natural patterns and processes.  For more information about this approach visit w...
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PRI New Zealand (Koanga Institute)

PRI New Zealand (Koanga Institute)
A national seed saving organisation dedicated to saving the heritage food plants of Aotearoa. Providing a broad range of Permaculture based workshops and education programs.
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Kotare Village Community Land Trust

Kotare Village Community Land Trust
A rural intentional community for 30 families, using a Community Land Trust legal structure for land ownership.
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An Elderberry Volunteers -Applying Permaculture Principle Number One in Our Backyard

Stephanie Ladwig-Cooper
Work With Nature Rather Than Against It: We can assist rather than impede natural elements, forces, pressures, processes, agencies, and evolutions. Observe and Interact: By taking the time to engage with nature we can design solutions that suit our particular situation. Elderberry volunteer...
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Applied Watershed Restoration course, October 19-22, 2011

Craig Sponholtz
Applied Watershed Restoration course, 19-22 October, offered by Dryland Solutions (www.drylandsolutions.com), approximately 1.5 hours northeast of Santa Fe, NM. Details are still being finalized, and should be posted on the Dryland Solutions website within a week's time. This course is designed t...
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