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Laos Students return!

Marty Miller-Crispe
After presenting their reports on what they had learnt for the past year the students from Lao headed back to their home villages to celebrate the Laos New Year.  A team from HEPA including Eva Saldaña Buenache, Joni Chan, Dave Bauer, and Robert Gray went with the students to learn more about t...

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CSA

Kate Beveridge
  Our CSA has evolved during the last 6yrs. It started by word of mouth with people interested in eating organic food moving towards people wanting that and local with the just picked freshness that we are able to supply because we sell straight to the consumer. Previously we have offered this a...

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Fungi on Our Property

Evan Young
Fungi from under our pine trees This afternoon I was walking around our few acres in casual observation mode with my dog Clayton. While walking under the pine trees that line our southern boundary I noticed a patch of red and white fungi that had popped up over night. Having never seen...
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Upcoming courses in Haiti, May 2011

Hunter Heaivilin
Course description and information can be found here: http://www.permacultureglobal.org/posts/657    
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New Myth #7: St. Francis Wood Permaculture Tribe, Post-Crash San Francisco, 2022. Earth Day Video by Willi Paul.

Willi Paul
New Myth #7: St. Francis Wood Permaculture Tribe, Post-Crash San Francisco, 2022. Earth Day Video by Willi Paul.

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Baby chicks!

Tiago Amado Simões
That's right, one of my chickens was a mother for the first time. Several things didn't go so well, some of the eggs didn't hatch, one of the seven babies didn't make it through the first night, and another was rejected by the mother, so I have him in my bedroom with a heating lamp. Anyway, all ...
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New introductory course to be held 21-22 of May

Klara Hansson
An introductory course to PK held in Swedish, for anybody who wants to understand the concept and gain more tools to start living the permaculture-life ;) Two days of lectures, movies, discussions, group-projects etc... Me anf Emma took the PDC in Jordan kast year and are now experimenting free...

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Araucanas and Rabbit Stew

Kirsten Bradley
Actually, at Milkwood it makes sense to celebrate both rabbits and eggs at this time of year: we’re cherishing the last of the eggs for the season, and also cherishing that at this time of year the bunnies around here are fat, and ready to become rabbit stew. Read More »
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Spring in PermaLot

Max Vittrup Jensen
We have 7 'german mounds' in our garden, to catch the snow melt-off / flood water. It's been hard to get rid of the weeds, as well as the slug invasion which has been eating all our vegetables the last 2 years.Last week we got 10 ex-factory farm chickens. After 2 days in such enclosure the moun...
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Spring in PermaLot: Veggie gardener still wanted.

Max Vittrup Jensen
We have 7 'german mounds' in our garden, to catch the snow melt-off / flood water. It's been hard to get rid of the weeds, as well as the slug invasion which has been eating all our vegetables the last 2 years.Last week we got 10 ex-factory farm chickens. After 2 days in such enclosure the moun...
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Ya suman 50

Tierra Martinez
Unas 50 personas de diferentes carácteristicas, pero con los mismos principios y valores, están cambiando su propia realidad a partir de la puesta en práctica de los diferentes módulos que estamos brindando en el PDC. Con una diversidad de proyectos interesantes que van desde el diseño de balcon...

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Refugee Tin Shack

Tom Mallard
The main feature of passive solar is from collecting and storing heat for comfort, so two parts, greenhouse panels or plastic form an essential part, and for a refugee camp, dirt for thermal mass. Taking a standard 3ftx8ft panel for walls, a 7-1/2ft wall section with a 3ft opening to a matchin...
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Badilisha Design Process, April 11

elin lindhagen duby
After the PDC with Warren Brush at Badilisha in March 2011 I continued work with Evans Odula on making a permaculture design at Badilisha a reality. The vision is for a place of learning, promoting permaculture and traditional knowledge, a meeting place for the local community and internati...
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Operation Shade House

Tim Auld
I put a 'wanted' advert on Freecycle Brisbane, a mailing list of people who give and receive items without exchanging money. Tim and Maggie responded soon after with an offer of their shade house. A few emails with photos later, a troop of gardeners was assembled on Saturday morning. ...

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Beginnings of a productive backyard

Tim Auld
I don't know why exactly, but the neighbour decided that the few trees in his back yard - a mango, a poinciana and a Chinese elm were to go. Ever the permie I saw a resource where others saw waste, and asked him if we could take the chips. When the loppers arrived I had them point the chipper int...

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Permaculture at Kiama Public School

Kirsten Bradley
Recently I’ve been asking around amongst my esteemed permaculture collegues as to what they thought were the best school garden models they’d seen or heard of. Aaron Sorenson’s name kept popping up as a school garden designer and facilitator that really stood out. So I thought I’d bet...
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Polyculture planting schemes

Wendy Howard
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Creative Community Facilitation in Taiwan

Robyn Francis
Thirty three-plus partipcipants from all parts of Taiwan, Beijing, Hong Kong, USA and Canada are unleashing their creativity in facilitating participatory community processes. The course is being conducted in the coastal village of Dulan near Taidung on the east coast of Taiwan with Robyn Francis...
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