This project was my first professional job as a landscape contractor. The client felt the time had come to remove their front lawn bordered by creosote-soaked railroad ties which was installed 25 years prior. The removal process involved planting right on top of the existing turf using a sheet m...

Consulting: Advice to organize a journey around the world on a shoestring Publication on our world tour devoted to sustainable lifestyles (forseen for 2013) –we are looking for professional advice, funds and a publisher Pedagogic support: expositions of pictures, movies with sub-titles… Net...

Do you wonder how our society can change to become ecologically viable?    Are you curious about alternatives to mainstream urban lifestyle? Then join Joanna´s and Franck´s interactive workshop on permaculture*showcasing sustainable projects around the world.    In August 2010 the young couple ...

A world tour devoted to sustainable lifestyles with permaculture as a guiding star

There is an english translation on web site www.permacultureinternationale.com   Flying Teams, Les Équipes Volantes, Los équipos Volantes. Open to everyone who has completed a classic Permaculture Design Course anywhere in the world.  The Flying Teams were created to facilitate the active...

Courses/Workshops, Economics — by Nick Huggins April 29, 2011 Link to YouTube Video: http://youtu.be/0OpuSBSRmDQ?hd=1 Professional development for permaculture consultants is one of the biggest opportunities moving forward — expanding permaculture into a business/energy transfer system. (Most p...

Rukatrunkai es una comunidad de aprendizaje de Permacultura. Construimos eco-domos y domos geodésicos, huertas orgánicas biointensivas, incorporamos animales en el diseño predial. Asimismo, utilizamos tecnologías apropiadas como colectores solares de bajo costo; estamos desarrollando un prototipo...

I'm looking for the least action for greatest change on the large swaths of fertile farmland here in the Willamette Valley. It seems that multifunctional hedgerows are something that farmers here with already established field boundaries and irrigation systems can super-impose over their existing...

A priori transformative education as a source of life. Education, as well observed Plato, has function of improving the philosophical nature of the individual and guide the human being for the good, the beautiful and for the improvement.

Have studied small scale organic farming and done two PDCs and also a Training of Trainers course, and I'm currently working towards my Diploma. So I also need some designs to do! Any suggestions?

Everyone in my shire has been super excited the last few months by the anouncement and showcasing of a proposed self sustainable hi-density eco village in Witchcliffe, Margaret River SHire, in South Western Australia, based loosely on Village Homes, Davis, California  http://www.foxcliffefarmec...

There should be some more people from Brazil registering to the Network as we have just completed our 38th PDC here! One more great bunch of good people to make the necessary changes.

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales to learn about rainwater harvesting and ecological sewage treatment. The courses were both fun and fascinating and I am still trying to process all the information I have gained (while trying not to sp...

Our 10th PDC on the farm is almost over. It is our smallest course ever, and the group is very tight knit, learning fast and furious. more pics to be added as we go..

Text and pics to be added as soon as we start next week.. Well the Mandala was completed some time ago, which was great fun, and involved revisiting circle maths! Here are some pictures of the garden in the frosty month of June. And in late July - a great deal has been harvested, mostly lea...

Ricks Institute Virginia, Liberia (near Monrovia)August 8th - 21st, 2011 International students (after May 8th, 2011) - $1150International students (before May 8th, 2011) - $950Local, low-income students - $250-$950 Includes meals, accommodation and instruction.It does not cover travel or trans...

We grow vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, chickens, dairy goats, and llama in a tightly integrated loop. We blog and do podcasts on growing animals, vegetables, permaculture.

I decided to try an experimental no-dig planting method for these cold frames: scatter the seeds on the ground and cover with a mix of compost and sand.         Then I installed some curved wires and reemay cloth for a second layer of protection using cloths pin...