By that time I want to be sitting back and recounting our successful adventure of transforming our land from an exposed and rocky ridge into a kick-ass permaculture farm. Just like the Brookmans. Annemarie and Graham Brookman are two of our heroes. 25 years ago they took a scruffy patc...

The Party Family (Esmeralda, Michele, Nicolas and Stephanie) are Chilean graziers near the town of Litueche in central Chile some 2 hours south of the capital and largest city Santiago. They have about 3000 ha of undulating grazing land under their care and are running 3000 dual purpose Merinos, ...

Cours de conception d’une forêt nourricière Joignez-vous à nous! Le cours de conception d’une forêt nourricière (jardin sur le modèle d’un sous-bois) de 2 jours vous permettra de comprendre ce système de culture dans notre climat et de vous pratiquer lors de l’implantation d’un tel jardin sur ...

A hands-on-experiential training experience in ecosystem structure and function, and in landscape understanding. It will show you how you can achieve the same benefits that natural systems demonstrate: stability, resilience, self-maintenance, self-renewal, increased soil quality, and nutrie...

Smallholding in Central Portugal. Permaculture gardens, poultry and horses.

After saturday morning's breakfast at the inn we had many guests wanting a tour of the property and to learn more about permaculture principles. Some were slightly familiar with the concept but many had no idea what it entails. Most left with a better understanding and ideas that they could take ...

We now have 27 varieties of fruit trees, berry bushes and other food plants on the property. The complete list includes autumn olives, pomegranates, nanking cherries, quinces, gooseberries, paw paws, persimmons, blueberries, concord grapes, peaches, plums, apples, pears, raspberries, blackberries...

 

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It doesn’t take long to be besotted – everyone who needs a wash at our farm heats the water for their showers using our fabulous rocket-powered shower water heater, which works a treat. So now we’re graduating to using rocket stoves for that article of post-shower bliss, the hot cup o...

Our project seeks to support transition by changing city people's views and actions regarding the environment. We help people to identify and change specific habits, educating for sustainability and resilience in the city.

King's Kids is a Private School in Bowling Green Ohio is adding Permaculture to the curriculum.

Hendersonville Nemenhah Chapter re-organizing under Permaculture and Earth Healing as a Unifying Purpose.

It has now been nearly 6 months since starting work as the Permaculturist at Soneva Fushi.   As discussed in previous blogs, Care for Earth, Growing soil and Organic Matter Matters the first step was to see what type of soil we were dealing with both visually and through testing for soil pH. Obs...

The Permie Song by Micelle Morgan music video

Phew, planting can be rough work when you're just getting started. This thick black clay is intense to fluff up for the first time. Well, add to that, first, I have to peel off a layer of cement before I can get to the clay. I'm getting better at wielding a pickax, for a girl. I ache all over, a...

So, what do you do with a bunch of wild kids with too much time on their hands? This is the second time in two totally different countries that we've had this problem. Firstly, in the States teenagers crossed the property where our friends and we were raising broilers and destroyed the fences an...

Yeah, my husband bought me a PDC course for my birthday! We even got to sponsor a Haitian through the class, so I'll be bringing the Haitian of my choice with me. Looking forward to it.