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A história

Suzana Maringoni
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...
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Update workshops Kalen

Jan Zijlstra
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...

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

Willi Paul
Video Conversations in Permaculture with Willi Paul. Guest: Melissa Miles, Eastern Pennsylvania Permaculture Guild & SoilKitchen.org.
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2010-2012 Front Yard Redesign

Daniel Broockmann
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...

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Root Cellar

Daniel Broockmann
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...

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Sand-Point Well

Daniel Broockmann
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...

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February in the Greenhouse

Daniel Broockmann
So, I finished the greenhouse in the summer of 2010 and can't seem to find any pictures of it in it's finished state at the moment.  But, the greenhouse proven its worth by growing straight through a very cold Idaho winter.  Here are some shots of growth in the greenhouse in early February.  No e...

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Greenhouse Construction

Daniel Broockmann
In 2009 I started building a 10' by 12' semi-subterranean, earth-sheltered, passive solar, four-season greenhouse.  Took about ten months to do all the digging, construction and getting it all put together.  I'm still tweaking it, but here are some construction shots.

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No-Till Bed

Daniel Broockmann
In the second season of the garden we decided to try creating a no-till bed.  Here is the construction process all the way to seeding.  There is a shot of the bed successfully growing stuff in the last update.

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Community Garden Season 2 (2010)

Daniel Broockmann
So we had another great bunch of folks and wonderful annual crops in the community garden during its second season in the summer of 2010.  Here's some shots from the start through the end of the early season (forgot to get pictures for the summer harvest).

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Tree Pruning Workshop

Daniel Broockmann
In February of 2010, members of the Boise Permaculture Guild converged at 2701 North 29th Street to have a tree pruning workshop.  This workshop was led by local fruit tree expert Dwight Allen.  About 20 of us were there and learned all we needed to keep our home orchards pruned and cared for pro...

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Tree Pruning Workshop

Daniel Broockmann
In February of 2010, members of the Boise Permaculture Guild converged at 2701 North 29th Street to have a tree pruning workshop.  This workshop was led by local fruit tree expert Dwight Allen.  About 20 of us were there and learned all we needed to keep our home orchards pruned and cared for pro...

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Associação de defesa do Património de Mértola- ADPM- ONGD for sustainability

Pedro Franco
Associação de defesa do Património de Mértola- ADPM-  ONGD for sustainability Created in 1980 ADPM is working mainly in rural development, towards a economical, social and cultural sustainability. Adpm Aims to share knowledge with public and private institutions and the local population. ...
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National Permaculture Day - Skill Fair Day Gold Coast

Leah Galvin
National Permaculture Day - Skill Fair Day Gold Coast Project: Permaculture Gold Coast Sunday, May 1 · 10:00am - 3:00pm Urban Eden Community Garden, Threeworlds Shop 2558 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast Come along for a day of learning, exchanging, workshops, talks, movies, heal...

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National Permaculture Day - Skill Fair Day Gold Coast

Leah Galvin
When: Sunday, May 1 · 10:00am - 3:00pmWhere: Urban Eden Community Garden, Threeworlds Shop2558 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast Come along for a day of learning, exchanging, workshops, talks, movies, healthy, delicious food and drinks....all things Permaculture. Gold coin donation a...

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Why pasture cropping is such a Big Deal

Kirsten Bradley
pasture cropped oats growing in symbiosis with native perennial pastures at Col Seis's farm Grain cropping is something that, for the vast majority of us, is someone else’s problem. We just eat the results; certainly every day, and nearly with every meal. Bread, rice, corn, soy, beans and ...
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Permaculture in Action; Raised beds and Keyhole gardens

Jan Zijlstra
Date:         Sunday 17 April 2011 Time:         11.00 - 14.00 h Location:    Govrlevo, Macedonia _____________________________________________________________________________   Kalen, platform for self realization and sustainable ways of Life in cooperation with The Green Ark  invites y...
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LemuLawen

LemuLawen
(For english read below) LemuLawen es un proyecto familiar de Permacultura & Salud Integral, ubicado en nuestro hogar en la EL Canelo Alto, Comuna de San José de Maipo (Cajón del Maipo), Región Metropolitana, Chile. LemuLawen is a familiar proyect of Permaculture & Integral Health, lo...
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