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4-Day Forest Garden Intensive:  Harvest Time!!   September 8-11, 2011 This is an extended version of our 1-day Forest Garden Workshop.  Throughout these four days, you will receive hands-on instruction in all aspects of forest gardening.  We will focus on the unique nature of high-altitude f...

Forest Garden Workshop:  7/16/2011 Learn how to create your own edible landscape with the concept of Forest Gardening.  Using fruit trees, berry bushes/shrubs and underlying annuals, create microhabitats that support both human and natural needs.  Learn to turn your yard into a living garde...

Course Overview:   The CRMPI Permaculture Design Certification Course is designed to give the participant an understanding of the essential elements and ideas of permaculture so that they can better design and engineer sustainable systems, including forest gardens, greenhouses, and other perm...

CRMPI is one of the oldest food forests and Permaculture Demonstration Sites in North America, run by Jerome Osentowski. www.crmpi.org.

So last night I headed out to the Farm after work and picked up some small square straw bales on the way out. I built a box that was 2 bales high and 2 bales long by 1 bale wide over an area that we scraped a little with the bob cat. I then laid out a 4 inch bottom of straw books (the sections th...

New greenhouse is full of tomatoes, aubegines and peppers, cucumbers growing well in the other one.  The forest garden is full of fruit, greens and flowers.  Our experiment bed (polyculture experiment undertaken through the Permauclture Association, look on their website to find out more) is full...

Anima Mundi DVD now out in Australia and New Zealand. Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change and the Soul of the World. Available everywhere else July/August.http://www.animamundimovie.com

So Thursday I hauled some 2x4s, sheets of plywood and small blue tarps up to Freezer Burn site on a ranch just west of Ponoka, AB. I had a basic plan worked out for how to build the outhouse structures as a buddy Mike had already built the toilet boxes for the pails to go in. The unloading of wo...

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Altitude: 1980 MASL. Distance from sea: 527 km from the Pacific Ocean & 370 km from the Gulf of Mexico. Coordinates: +20° 26' 7.35", -100° 31' 46.60" Köppen climate classification: BSh (Drylands Hot semi-arid). Slope: approximately 7.04% from SE a NW. Annual temperat...

August 2011 in Tamera: Events around the issue of the Healing of Water Cycles with Sepp Holzer and Bernd Müller http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=811&L=0 The global scarcity of water, the food crisis, desertification, floods all over the world and large fires are not “natural catastro...

http://youtu.be/NG03xNbuSpE Where should I buy land? Where’s a good area? What should I be looking for in a landscape? This question is something that Nick gets asked a lot when he’s teaching and consulting, so we thought we’d ask Joel Salatin’s opinion while he was at our farm last Summer. A...

This is leisure and community building project event, composed by a leisure mountain bicycle tour and foodfeast open to the surrounding community, everything organised by project volunteers and supported by the local council. Follow the link to pictures made by a visitor from a nearby village wh...

A forest garden planted by and for the local community. The design follows permaculture principles incorporating fruit trees, bushes and shrubs to create an abundant mix of the local, unusual and exotic. The intention of the project is to connect local people with their landscape and be a demonst...

April, May and June saw a PDC and  a two week Permaculture Internship completed. A natural building course and internship followed shortly thereafter. And most wonderfully, the dam funded by the Threshold Foundation of the US is finally full, thanks to 110mm plus of much needed rain. The dam ...

Things in the garden even up here in the north are well on their way now, including many plants that most gardeners would condemn as weeds, things to get rid of. For me a bed full of weeds has become a salad bar, and weeding has gotten a new fresh perspective to it! Many weeds grow early and fa...

  Planetary Permaculture PilgrimageA once in a lifetime opportunity to do advanced study with many of the greatest teachers of permaculture.  Join a group of advanced students and teachers to pilgrimage to Australia to learn from the Grandmothers and Grandfathers of Permaculture. Whether you a...