Sobre a parede de pau-a-pique um reboco seguindo as dicas de Jorge Belanko no video "El barro, Las manos, La casa"( bio-construtor de El Bolson - sul da Argentina)  

Wicking boxes can be used either as part of an intensive water-wise growing system, or just a good way to keep those herbs alive that you usually forget to water. And you can make one yourself out of junk for next to nothing! Read More »

This weekends course was advertised as: "In nature, plants don't grow as isolated individuals, but they create communities - guilds of plants, among which social relationships arise. Solitude plants are more the exception than the rule. This tendency of plants to grouping, we can use in designin...

This weekends course was advertised as: "In nature, plants don't grow as isolated individuals, but they create communities - guilds of plants, among which social relationships arise. Solitude plants are more the exception than the rule. This tendency of plants to grouping, we can use in designin...

The course includes a handout of presentation notes, a CD of Permaculture information, and, a starter pack of organic seeds.  This course will empower you to establish your own small Permaculture food garden, as well as, to plan your own Permaculture action based learning pathway.  This course wi...

After four months of transforming an overgrown half acre into a aquaponics system we our proud to show you the results of our hard labor.  

Hi, I'm Quinto. My partner Leticia and I, have just bought a wonderful 4000 sq. meter piece of land near Orgiva (in the Alpujarra, Spain), and we'd love to have permaculture students and teachers come and enjoy the land and share their knowledge with us. Preferably you'd know about th...

Transition Town – Maitland. Citrus Drive. Transition Town Maitland, through the Hunter Transition Initiative, is embarking on a drive to collect unwanted citrus in the Maitland area and put it to good use for the community and we want you to be a part of the drive. There will be more on...

Our Summer Pig Project With meat that has been raised in a humane way in very short supply, my sweetie Taiga and I decided that we would experiment with growing three pigs this summer.  We have been for some time now on a mostly vegetarian diet after deciding that we would try to eat only meat...

Hi all, So I thought I had a full roster of folks gardening in our community garden out back, but it sounds like a few people wonh't be needing their plots this year.  If anyone knows of somebody that would like to join in with the permaculture community garden fun, we'd love to have them.  We t...

El Instituto Ná Lu´um se ha caracterizado por ser un pionero en Latinoamerica de la siembra de la semilla de la permacultura en diferentes climas, ecosistemas y culturas. Este trabajo siempre estuvo caracterizado por la apertura de centros de referencia de educación en Permacultura. Esta vez en ...

A call from a friend that works for the solar shop in the Hunter Valley alerted me to the opportunity to save the packing crates from landfill and give them a reuse somehow. I married the opportunity with a need to have a collapsable hen house to be part of a backyard display I was doing for the...

Hoje não tive aula devido a uma fatalidade. Morreu a mãe de uma colega minha. Meus pêsames Silvia, tenha meu apoio.   Aproveitei este dia pra começar a celebrar a vida. E iniciar a horta. Lembrando o projeto de encerramento do meu curso de PDC usei a ideia do meu grupo. Então!! Esta mandala e ...

I After years (yes, literally) of trying to figure how best to create a low-cost, low footprint, 2m high retaining wall in our courtyard, we discovered the solution. Wire baskets of rocks. Yes. Previously, gabions always seemed to me the sort of thing you find next to a highway, hold...

Cuando observamos un paisaje, usualmente lo hacemos con los ojos, cuando observamos una planta lo hacemos de igual manera y así con la mayoría de los elementos que tendriamos dentro de un diseño de permacultura. La busqueda del uso de otros sentidos, nos permitirá conocer mas en profundidad el l...

So my parents and I have bought the BCS-732 2 wheel tractor with the rotary plow attachment that Rob told me about. I pick it up saturday to take out to the farm. I am excited to try it out for turning lawns and corrals into garden beds, which will be mostly about prepping them this year. I plan...

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A garden that supplies all my needs and reflects my family’s cultural heritage.