Okay, here is the dilemma. We want to get the property looking "nice" (of course that is relative) for when the owner arrives soon. We are clearing out all the fallen banana stalks, dead leaves, etc., so he will find what he expects when he arrives. We started a compost pit, but it filled up ve...

I didn't get to be there personally, and I am jealous. A group of little boys took my boys around on the Caring 4 Haiti property, and were showing them how to find and dig up rogue potatoes. They gathered up a good little pile and gave them to my kids. Today we fried them up for a mid-morning sn...

Another chicken is dead! Do you remember the one we rescued, and I just wrote a couple days ago about how he walks like a soldier? Well, apparently something got to him - infection or otherwise. We called him Big Foot, because the previously wounded foot had maintained its misshapen form. He was...

On my profile I told about our banana troubles, how they were cut down for photos. We could hardly stand it, because many of them would have been in fruit right now. One lady in the area was just beaten across the street from us by a neighboring gardener, because she stole some of his bananas. Wo...

Trellising is important for many garden plants, and it becomes even more important when used in a permaculture design.  Given that all design elements should have multiple functions, trellises serve not only to provide space for climbing plants to grow, but also provide living, quick shad...

FOOD NOT LAWNS!

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I don't know if it was the beautiful view of the surrounding Shropshire hills, or the welcoming smiles of Janta and Merav but as soon as I stepped on the land at Karuna my tummy flipped. There is something so magical about seeing a landscape being healed. To see trees reclaim a hillside, abundant...

After having completed the renovation of our farm house in 2011 we are continuing to develop our permaculture farm project. We look for helpers with a special interest in learning more about permaculture. We have plenty of tasks in the garden, forest and household - working the land, maintaining...

Community of 3 families in the Swiss Emmental running a small farm for self-supply and a yurt guest-house with seminars in Permacultre, Yoga, etc.

The March meeting of the High Plains Permaculture interest group will be a screening of the award-winning documentary "Garbage Warrior", highlighting Michael Reynolds of earthship fame. From the box: "What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you're renegade ...

What was an overgrown jungle - incredibly fertile and productive ... just not much in the way of tucker for the table, has started moving toward a feast for three families. With the contribution of Hannah and Nicky, we chopped, dropped, sheet mulched, mulched, cleared, planted, laughed, smiled a...

I met today with a couple of people from the local Neighbourhood Centre.  We have spoken before, and the first meeting was one of "those" meetings that seems to meander around and about and not go anywhere.  But, have faith did I, and since that time they have been engaging a broad range of other...

Worked on several projects while in East Africa. Kenya has just established the Kenya Permaculture Research Institute. They are able to accept grant money now to develop demonstration sites throughout Kenya. In Tanzania, the Global Resource Alliance established a 1.5 acre permaculture demonstrat...

In November 2010 Charlie Heather of rock band The Levellers and Dunstan Bruce of Chumbawamba visited Graham Burnett's forest garden in Leigh on Sea to produce a short film as part of a 'video blog' diary of their UK tour. The film can be viewed here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLH6oKMTNnE

An urban forest garden project on an allotment in Leigh on Sea, Essex, UK

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Educational project encouraging the growing of fruit and vegetables in urban gardens in Southend on Sea, Essex, UK