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...
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.
COWLA has been established as a way forward for facilitating volunteerism and technolgical support to define mutual expectations and contributions to future common work in Permaculture and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Also to improve cross-cultural education, capacity building and t...
Last month I introduced a new challenge to the Chapters of the Nemenhah Indigenous People Worldwide. As the Chapters begin their Permaculture Projects. Under direction and mentoring from the Nemenhah Model PermaVillage, here in Missouri, our goal and intention is to create a new map of PermaVil...
Supposing it's something more than my pretty face (Courtesy to mum/dad and significantly Craig Macintosh who took the photo last month; best portrait I've ever had!), which made you subscribe as follower?
I'm honored and aim to please. What would you like to know?
Here's a 25 min. film about th...
Cob building is thought by many to be the world's most sustainable
building method. Meeting Permcaulture principles, buildings can be made simply from materials found on the property - the main ingredients are clay, sand, straw, water and love.
Whilst labour intensive, it requires little in t...
Mother, Sun, and the Compost Pile for Joseph Campbell Foundation MythNow Blog by Willi Paulhttp://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=37Students have told me they are fearful for the environment, the oceans are sick, but that there could be some sort of shift ahead. A sustainable path? I hope so...
The project involves owner building a self sufficient bushfire resistant residence surrounded by a food forest (300+ trees so far) plus raised no dig vegetable, herbs and seedling beds (12 beds so far) experiments with hugelkultur plus chickens (12 chooks)
Hi, folks! Those of you within the SF Bay Area foodshed are cordially invited to Wildstar Farm and Folk School's First Fruits Benefit, this Sunday from 4-6pm at Post Meridian, a chic restaurant in North Berkeley/Kensington whose chef-owner is a supporter of ours.
Click here for the details.
We...
Road trip in NZ is fabulous I have some great pictures of erosion patterns for my files. The housing is reasonably sized and there isn't a huge glut of fast food giants dominating the towns and cities. The places cries out for permaculture. Solar green houses. reforestation, etc. It would all be ...
This is a brief intro to this particular project - more news (and eventually pictures) as it happens.
A friend of mine who is a long-time builder and cabinet maker and also has an interest in alternative building materials and methods is building a prototype-demonstration dwelling that he calls ...
Strawberry tree.
Strawberrys grow in soil on ground level. We are used to it. Effective with enough soil and space, but ineffective in little gardens. Cities are a permanent part of nature. You can like ore dislike it, it's a fact. And Darwin said: "be fitted", and you will have the biggest cha...
