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Advanced Permaculture Teacher Training with Robyn Francis: July 2-12, 2011

Penny Livingston-Stark
Learn to design effective and meaningful learning experiences, from theoretic concepts to hands-on practicalities. Gain confidence and skills to facilitate participatory and experiential processes, energisers, exploratory learning, effective audio visual and presentation techniques, and...

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The Regenerative Design Institute

The Regenerative Design Institute
The Regenerative Design Institute (RDI) is a non-profit educational organization with the vision that all people can live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the earth. We envision a world in which people, inspired by nature, create and maintain healthy and abundant livelihoods that enhance...
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Ashwood College Permaculture Food Garden

Ashwood College Permaculture Food Garden
The purpose of this garden is to grow gardeners! Ashwood College Permaculture Food Garden is a communal community garden based in the grounds of a secondary school where parents, students and other community volunteers work and learn together to grow food.
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Permacultura Pilar

Permacultura Pilar
La intención es llevar a una práctica concreta el Certificado de Permacultura (PDC) que estoy aprendiendo. El alcance del proyecto tiene la intención de establecer un sector de Permacultura adentro de un barrio privado donde generalmente el consumo es abruptamente mayor que la producción casi nul...
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Kids in the Garden: our pick of School Garden books

Kirsten Bradley
Since meeting Aaron Sorenson, I’ve begun to understand just how a good school garden can truly intersect with more aspects of learning than perhaps anything else that happens in a school day. At this point in my ongoing research into school gardens I thought I’d share my 3 current fa...
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Portuguese Permaculture Institute

Helder Valente
Here you can see the work we have been developing this last months.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIOXW3RBGeM
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Stopping for breath

Wendy Howard
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Wicking Bed

Bee Winfield
 Wicking beds We set up a wicking bed in a hurry recently to demonstrate how little water it takes to grow veges in this set up The growth has been phenomenal.... lettuce seedlings of the same size were planted in an adjacent, well watered and composted garden. The garden has had to be watered (...
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Merri Bee Organic Farm

Merri Bee Organic Farm
Merri Bee Organic Farm has been developing a Permaculture for 25 years, and has become a demonstration site for many of the principles and strategies of Permaculture design.
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Vancouver Island Permaculture

Elaine Codling
Vancouver Island Permaculture is registered as a sole proprietorship! The mission is ecological restoration, developing sustainability and creating healing habitats through consulting and teaching permaculture. Vancouver Island Permaculture is located in Courtenay BC Canada.
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Sarangani Reforestation Moves Ahead: Press Release

Christian Shearer
MEDIA RELEASE   Foreign groups help PHILIPPINES to rehab forests DAVAO CITY -- Foreign groups have joined the Presidents call to a greener country by launching a P150-million permaculture project to rehabilitate Sarangani's remaining pristine rain forest. The project is a partnership...
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A Spring Awakening at the Karuna Permaculture Project.

Janta Wheelhouse
A Spring Awakening At The Karuna Permaculture Project I recently spent just over a week at Karuna, an inspiring forest garden Permaculture project hidden in the hills of deepest darkest Shropshire. I was there by myself, tasked with looking after the land while the resident family, good friends ...

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Top bar bee hive maintenance #3

Tim Auld
The hive hadn't been opened up for quite a while and It turns out that the bees had build comb out of alignment with the top bars. This made it impossible to extract some of the combs because they just broke off the bars. I believe this is because a) the comb guides were too short - beyond the gu...

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Transplanted Mullein

Fred Tanner
Mullein is a medicinal that grows wild in North Georgia. It is easily identified because it has soft leaves like lambs ear. The second year it grows a large stalk that has many seeds. It is used as a medicinal for bronchial problems and other uses. We find it growing in our driveway and other ar...
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Making an access road: earthworks, evolution, problems, tips

Victor Barahona
It's been about two and a half years we did the driveway from the border to the house, in that time I have been taking pictures to see its evolution, I include several of them. We had some problems and We've learned several things, we could have done things differently but We are satisf...

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Chicken Garden Rotation Coop: Zone 3 cropping

Andrew Millison
Here is my newly remodeled chicken coop. There are 4 doors, each leading to a separate fenced quadrant. In two quadrants I planted Fava beans in February, and now there's corn, squash, and beans seeded, while the chickens prepare the next quadrant for pumpkins in June. Next I'll move the chickens...

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AQUACULTURAL REVOLUTION -The scientific case for changing salmon farming

Graham Calder
AQUACULTURAL REVOLUTION -The scientific case for changing salmon farming Many prominent scientists and First Nation representatives speak their minds about the salmon farming industry and the numerous problems associated with it in the film Aquacultural Revolution. Watch this 5min intro to...
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Available Soil testing services for Canada and USA by Province/State

Graham Calder
Hey everyone this is a great resource for Designers and anyone going into organics.  It is a resource website that gives you all kinds of sites for information pertaining to organic agriculture.  It is kind of a life line. The tests they provide are for everything, Chemicals, Metals, NPK...
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