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...

Run time is 9:18 seconds. There is no sound, but I have included captions for almost all the photographs. If the stills pass too quickly, just utilize the pause button and navigate. This is my first "video" ever, so lots could be improved upon.  Link.

Community building and education for sustainable development project based in "Aldeia das Amoreiras", + 500 years old, traditional village (less than 200 people), located in Odemira Municipality - South-west of Portugal.

Hi All I've just started a trial of a polyculture that combines elements of Bon Fils wheat growing, with vegetable growing, and edible fungi. I'm trying to find out if there is anybody else doing something similar, in order to compare notes,and exchange information. If you are doing something s...

Hugelkultur, you have heard about it and you want to try it.  Come on over to my site at www.permafarmer.blogspot.com and check out my latest posting on building a hugelkultur bed here in Canada.  The myriad of benefits they provide are even more so here given our abundance of woody materials and...

State-of-the-art agroforestry operation, green tea plantation and permaculture demonstration farm.

Urban residential retrofit and permaculture garden showcasing clumping bamboos, native bushfoods and wildlife habitat.

Cobbing The beginning of week 5 was all about mixing and building cob since the roof was up and stable. There is so much to learn about cob that you can only truly understand through tactile experience.  You need to feel the critical proportion of clay to sand to ensure a plastic, cohesive, wo...

This week started with Marco and Linda departing camp and Anita and Martin making a real effort to progress the project positively and constructively. A real highlight of the week was when Laurence came to camp to give us an edible weeds tour of our area. She taught us how to identify what we co...