Saturday, April 9th, 12 – 6 p.m. This year’s Gathering is a regional event designed to foster networking, coordination, and learning of permaculture philosophies among all classes of community in Upstate New York. This Gathering will accomplish the following: • Provide an introductory understa...

See the video at http://FingerLakesPermaculture.orgSteve will be the lead teacher for the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute's workshops this spring in NY, PA, MA and RI on inoculating shiitake, oyster, and stropharia mushrooms.

A blog to record my diploma and other permaculture adventures

Get Growing trains people to grow food in their own homes and community using permaculture design and organic methods.

I'm looking for options on where I can do my APT.  Options that are in subtropical areas and not in Australia would be best. Is this even possible? Any suggestions? How long does it take to complete? I'm currently in London, UK, but will be leaving in June, destination unknown and possibly deci...

Have a look at this YouTube Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf7ZobiBWXg Details:  This work party was co-led by Tamara Schwartzentruber, a certified Permaculture Designer /Teacher and  Gardener and Dan Miller, a local gardener.  There were over 25 industrious and keen work party voluntee...

We had a great time at the Vale da Lama permaculture school and now we have some new permies to tace care for our life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAfa_N0x4WU

For about 20 years there have been conversations about getting a community garden off the ground (should that be in the ground, on the ground.??).  Different people have had different roles to play, and different organisations have approached it from different angles.  The local council allocated...

More than five years ago we found in the village I am living with my family the local exchange trading system called "Krems-Taler". Now we have more than 70 paticipants using local money for taking help from members of our community.

Permaculture, Poetry & RevolutionWHO: Graeme O'Farrell is a musician, spoken word artist, permaculture designer and consultant inviting locally home-grown internationally acclaimed spoken-word artists and musicians to work with him for...WHAT: A weekend permaculture learning retreat of theory...

El proyecto se desarrolla en un predio de 2.200 metros cuadrados ubicados en un loteo aún sin urbanizar en la zona de la Ventania. Se propone instalar un espacio habitable para el hombre con mínimas perturbaciones al ecosistema del lugar, propiciando un contacto cotidiano con los ciclos de la nat...

Interview with EcoAlchemist Willi Paul: Permaculture, New Myths and the Search for Sacred. Arts In The Valley, KY0S 1480 AM, Merced, CA. Kim McMillon, Host. 3/19. http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1834  

Spring has arrived. This little primula that came here naturally, shows it. It grows right to the rock pile I made to attract reptilians, a blindworm in the best case. Blindworms are said to live to 90% on slugs. On the picture on the right you can see this rock pile in the background. Right ne...

The Bee Myth: An Environmental Machinima film based on Willi Paul's modern myth, The Bee Cave Spirits. Written and Adapted for machinima by Willi Paul and Celestial Elf, Producer.

There's so much to read about rocket stoves but nothing is better to get you applying the technology in daily life than hands on experience! I knew someone who had been building and testing different models up to the point that their goats and chicken are now being kept warm and toasty ov...

There is not just only one Permaculture job !  The role we take on as a Permaculturist is to facilitate and participate in Caring for the Earth, Care for the People and Fair share. We design systems with abundance as the outcome, abundant supply of produce, energy and resources to sustain the sy...

Last night a bee flew into my living room, and I decided to take it out to the hive. I'm not sure if my rescue was successful - it was dark - but I did discover that there were some bees that could not get into the hive at night. They were crowded outside as if they couldn't get in. I resolved to...

Earlier this month the Kamiah Permaculture team did a presentation on food forests for a local preparedness group (about 50-55 people).  Many people seemed very receptive of the idea and showed an interest learning more about permacultureYesterday (March 18) we held a presentation including the m...