One home's transition from a lawn to a perennial forest garden system using as many permaculture principles as we can or are ready to adopt.

Permaculture is Germination is Transmutation. For the 2011 Bay Area Permaculture Convergence. Essay by Willi Paul, openmythsource.com I have been avoiding your bright eyes lately in favor of skype voices. Bear in mind that I am making this up. A journey with a no map and no deep garden....

Three workshops were taught in France by a team composed of one supervisor, Pascal Depienne, and 7 students : Linnéa Lindstroem, Judith Lashbrook, Franck Nathié, Gurun Manrot, Anne Derouet, Vincent Audouin, Moilamain. This team is part of the french university of permaculture: "Université Populai...

Hot off the press!  We have just recieved the official letter to say that our Community Land Trust Public Fund is now a Registered Environmental Organisation, with all donations of $2 or more to the fund being tax deductible! Donations are received and used for enviromental projects, including d...

An all-day cob rendering workshop with permaculturalists Alan Atkinson and Mal McKenna, and cob expert Linda McKee has brought the little cob project to near completion. Participants learned the art of cob earth rendering. We worked with an equal mix of horse/cow dung, and clay mix, including p...

THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED. HOWEVER, IT MAY OPEN AGAIN IN THE FUTURE CONTINGENT ON FUNDING. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR RESUME OR CV TO [email protected] IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO KEEP IT ON FILE. Global Resource Alliance, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is seeking an experienced permaculturist to...

Brincar com bambu e barro, construindo abrigos, bancos, esculturas é sempre um grande prazer... Na postagem no projeto Permacultura na Autonomia relato mais um dia neste cotidiano...

No projeto Transdisciplinar com os sétimos anos, cada grupo poderia experimentar construir coiswas diferentes com bambu, barro, palha. Um dos grupos imaginou uma "caverna" com uma espécie de domo feito de bambus fincados no chão, e cobertos com barro... Neste momento, mais do que uma caverna, a...

Swiss NGO WeForest and business partner Deloitte Belgium awarded Global Resource Alliance with a grant to plant 130,000 trees in Sub-Saharan Africa where forests provide a fragile lifeline to the people there.The two year permaculture tree planting campaign is located in Kinesi Village, Tanzania....

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We have produced a design for the property and are now in the implementation phase. Expansion of both infrastructure and gardens are the first priorities. A food forest and animals will follow. Focus will be on hardy perennials and native plants.

Sentimos que para que los cambios sean reales, prácticos y contundentes deben de ser llevados a través de la Educación. Sin ella sería imposible salir adelante y sin una educación con visión a futuro para nuestros niños y jovenes, poco podrá ser realmente el cambio si no trabajamos para ello. Es...

PRI Saskatchewan is a non-profit organization set up to establish, develop and promote permaculture practices and principles in Saskatchewan through teaching, implementing and networking.

frogs have shown up at the little pond we've made near the house!  We are proud to have built them a home and to know many mosquitos no longer feel so welcome.  It's really cool to know that nature can just come to you when you build things.

I have found a very eco friendly carpentry company in Crossfield that has offered me all the saw dust I can cart away. I have a friend building the toilet boxes. I am going tomorrow to get as many of the pails as I can. All that is left is to build the structure to house the two toilets. I am thi...

Week 2 of the cob building course was (nearly) all about FOOD!! Planting food, skip diving for food, cooking creatively, making a stove and oven, eating, discussing... it really seemed to be our focus all week! After our first skip dive at the local supermarket bin, we organised the camp kitch...