Spring projects have been keeping us very busy, and there's been little time to write. Also, my laptop is just back from the shop.  As soon as the snow began to thaw in March, we were out slashing brush and small trees in the main food forest area. I also felled some tall spindly trees which wer...

Small permaculture farm in the forest of Sintra, with more than 30 varieties of fruit and some rare edible plants. We're opened and capable of receiving visitors

Time is compressing down on this long awaited adventure. Only a matter of mere months now. It's challenging to even relate all the little details. So many moving pieces, so many beautiful new connections, so many inspiring new inspirations. With all that's happening, it's sometimes difficult to m...

In 2009 I was given a dwarf lop doe for Christmas.  She was joined a few months later by a dwarf lop buck, and within a few months I was suddenly a Breeder of Dwarf Lop Rabbits... %)   "Black" Peta Panton and "Fast" Eddie Karborani, to give them their full names, are still with me today, and sti...

Self-Sufficiency, Rabbits, and Rabbit Poo... %)

Just followed a bunch of people in the south and west of australia mainly, and will keep looking and adding as time permits.   One thing that I think is very good about this website is that if used right, it will promote a lot of social interaction.  I urge every one of you people I've just star...

Darren Doherty Creating Waves Day One was the setup day, a general introduction to regenerative agriculture as a solution above and beyond mere conservation and sustainability. We were treated to a landscape observation with Darren, and insitu analysis on the hop with the client and 100 or so on...

O GRANDE PDC LITORÂNEO 2011 de 09 a 18 de DEZEMBRO 2011 – VERÃO O CURSO COMPLETO DE DESIGN EM PERMACULTURA                    Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course São mais de 100 horas intensivas de Formação (prática e teórica) em Design em Permacultura. Desenvolvido na Estação de P...

Ixchel Ha Farm is a developing permaculture design demonstration farm; in southern Belize.

A plan to protect 1 mile of coastline in Scartby Norfolk UK

The focus of this course is to let go of some of the stereotypical survival teachings and establish a relationship with the earth through the skills of the Hunter-Gatherer. By treating the earth like our home, we can become more comfortable and let go of the conquering notions that the term “surv...

The focus of this course is to let go of some of the stereotypical survival teachings and establish a relationship with the earth through the skills of the Hunter-Gatherer. By treating the earth like our home, we can become more comfortable and let go of the conquering notions that the term “surv...

A construção deste maradia seguindo os princípiosda Permacultura inciou-se em 2006, numa proposta de auto-gestão e construção pelos permacultores Suzana e Jorge. TAmbém havia a disponibilidade de abrir espaço para a aprendizagem de jovens permacultores vivenciarem o que significa construir uma...

So, it has been a while I wrote here on this site. That does not mean I have not been doing anything interesting to write about. On the contrary, the past few weeks were wonderful and filled with action. After the first workshop 3 others have followed; Sector planning, Designing the field and la...

Video Conversations in Permaculture with Willi Paul. Guest: Melissa Miles, Eastern Pennsylvania Permaculture Guild & SoilKitchen.org.

In the spring of 2010 we undertook to redesign the front and side yards of 2701 from green grass to permaculture wonderfullness.  We covered exisiting grass with cardboard and leaves, buried it with dirt a friend down the street needed to get rid of, and started things up.  There are between 20 a...

So, with all the goodies from the fall harvest, there just wasn't enough space in the fridge in the house to store it all.  So I decided to build a basic root cellar.  It's just a trash can sunk in the ground, but it works like a champ.  The veggies pictured had already been in the root cellar fo...

So, in Boise if build your own well, you don't need a permit and the city doesn't monitor your water usage.  So I decided to use the cold-sink of the greenhouse as my well house and pound a sand point well in.  It is about 19.5 feet deep (water table is 15 feet).  I hooked up a pump and plumbed i...