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...

Four inner-city lots acquired from Land Bank -- formerly residential lots, now vacant. Developing and modeling sustainable urban edible greenspace.

Where can you learn to make bread, juggle, use online networks, knit, play music, cook in a cob oven, conserve endangered plants, use a spinning wheel, keep bees, convert a diesel vehicle to run on vegetable oil, communicate compassionately, ferment food, raise a nappy-free baby, and lots mor...

At Milkwood Farm we love both our rocket stove water heater and our mini rocket stove, but with winter taking hold I’m dreaming of new ideas, so I thought I’d review what else is out there. DIY rocket stove technology is exploding world-wide at the moment – here’s a couple of the treasures I...

A home garder with medical plants and fruits

Nesta época do ano, inverno aqui em Santa Catarina, é hora de cuidar das frutíferas, roçando a área, colocando palhada e adubando as frutíferas. Ver as mudas crescerem, e amadurecerem para na primavera dar seus primeiros frutos é lindo. Nossa zona 2 é composta de leguminosas nativas, como  bra...

Permaculture in the Maldives to feature in French Documentary     In the beginning of May I was fortunate to have the opportunity to further promote Permaculture Design in the Maldives. French TV ESCALES are making a 52 minute documentary on sustainability on Six Senses Properties.   The mai...

Permaculture in the Maldives to feature in French Documentary   In the beginning of May I was fortunate to have the opportunity to further promote Permaculture Design in the Maldives. French TV ESCALES are making a 52 minute documentary on sustainability on Six Senses Properties.   The main fo...

ANybody got any good tips/resource sites for techniques dealing with invasive grasses? Where i live in Margaret River, Sth Wst Aus, it old dairy country... and there is Kikuyu EVERYWHERE. THose who have worked around Kikuyu before know that its like the Terminator, very hard to isolate and hold ...

Forest Lodge Farm Stay is a 168 acre property and when myself and my family moved in, it had little or no active permculture elements. Our project is to transform the farm into self sufficient permaculture paradise, for the two families that now live here and the animals that share the land with us!

This is a short term project to bring together locals around the idea for city block farming.

Forest Farm Montessori School has been established for 11 years and has diverse grounds for teaching sustainable land use