It is an exciting time for the Nemenhah Model PermaVillage.  Of the 57 organized Chapters in North America, 6 have jumped on the challenge I made a week ago to begin Permaculture Projects.  They will begin by hosting PDC courses and then continue with their own projects.  This response is very en...

Diverse Cold-Temperate Homestead, Farm, Research and Education Site.

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After spending a decade in the parched, wind-blown, sun-baked, frost and snow-frozen high desert of Utah, the rainy, forested, protected foothills of the Ozarks seemed like heaven on earth.  The property I was able to acquire was covered with sedond growth trees, thriving, living, exuding happine...

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I have just completed a PDC with Rick and Naomi Coleman @ Southern Cross Permaculture Institute. I have so many ideas of where I want to go from here..... Teaching permaculture is definitely high on my list along with developing a design for my block in the short term. I have been offered the ...

Here is the ecolicious website for more pics and info on the great work of Charles at Ecolicious. http://www.ecolicious.com.au/index.html

january and february have been intense months in "el espino". we have started the jobs of our new ecocenter proyect with energy and many friends that have come to the volunteering in summer and ours permaculture course of sustainable life in the farm, where a beautiful and cheering group of peopl...

I like the idea of big, rough mulching in swales out in Zone 2, but I have found away to use the big, fibrous biodegradables utilizing a form of Hugulkulture. In order to get some light in under the mature trees, I trim up about fifteen feet and I also selectively open up some of the trees.  Thi...

Because I wanted to preserve all the trees I could on our ten acre project, I was unsure just how to incorporate earthworks into the design.  Then I observed something that gave me a pattern to work from.  Whenever it rains very hard (only always) the humus runs out of the forest duff and is carr...

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A video conversation about new alchemy, mythology & the sacred in permaculture with Maddy Harland, Editorial Director - Permaculture Magazine & Willi Paul, EcoAlchemist - openmythsource.com

A video conversation about new alchemy, mythology & the sacred in permaculture with Maddy Harland, Editorial Director - Permaculture Magazine & Willi Paul, EcoAlchemist - openmythsource.com

Brogo Permaculture Gardens is a demonstration site for a cool temperate climate. Its the home of the Champagne family who made the transition from being dependant consumers living in the city to responsible producers on a rural block.

A proposta deste curso, realizado no verão de 2011 um grupo de 20 experientes permacultores, com no mínimo 2 anos de prática conhecida em permacultura, era rever a aprofundar e embasamento de cada um para que atuem como instrutores para cursos PDC. Neste curso a discussão pedagógica dialogou  com...

I'm studying Permaculture with Chief Cloudpiler of the Nemenhah Band and Native American Traditional Organization. My first project was a Cob House with water harvesting into a Bamboo Circle.  I'll begin an attached greenhouse this season to provide thermal mass heat for the coming winter. Func...

A construção de uma unidade de Permacultura por um casal de permacultores, envolvendo os mais diversos aspectos como a construção da moradia com materiais locais, a implementação das zonas 1, 2 e 3. Este projeto encontra-se dentro da Estação de permacultura de Yvy Porã.