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Apple (and thumb) Grafting Workshop at Karuna

Nicole Vosper
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...
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Helpers needed for permaculture construction

Anton Küchler
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...

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Balmeggberg

Balmeggberg
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.
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Garbage Warrior screening

Rebecca Schnabel
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 ...
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A community garden, or a community of gardeners?

Bryan West
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...

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Connecting communities one person at a time

Bryan West
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...
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Permaculture Design Site Tanzania

Andy Fischer
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...

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The Levellers visit Graham Burnett's Forest Garden!!

Graham Burnett
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
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Manchester Drive Forest Garden

Manchester Drive Forest Garden
An urban forest garden project on an allotment in Leigh on Sea, Essex, UK
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Spiralseed

Spiralseed
Spiralseed is an independent enterprise founded in 2001 to promote permaculture education and earthright living.
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Nurturing Health/Top of the Crops

Nurturing Health/Top of the Crops
Educational project encouraging the growing of fruit and vegetables in urban gardens in Southend on Sea, Essex, UK
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PDC in Canberra

John Champagne
Full PDC covering all the chapters of Bill Mollison's 'The Designers Manual'. Taught by the experienced team of John Champagne and Phil Gall and guest local presenters. Features include - * Interactive class participation taught by creative facilitators. * 2 full days of site visits. One day se...
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3 days in

andy macey
So 3 days in and I'm learning heaps........ quite a few things are just reassurance that I've been having reasonable thought processes surrounding my plans but the further we get into the course the more I realise I've got a lifetime of learning to do yet!!
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Chicken Woes and Worm Mating

Natasha Turner
We're in a one-bedroom apartment now with three kids, but it has electricity (inverter and batteries). The owner also keeps a custodian here, and he is teaching us a lot. All-in-all the space trade is really worth it. We've learned about double-dug gardens, protecting seedlings from chicke...
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Haiti Homefront

Haiti Homefront
This is where we put permaculture into practice at home: compost, worm bin, chickens, pollywogs, herb gardens, pineapple, avocado, mango, soursop, veggies, and more.
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Permaculture Course and BioBambu By engaging with the Regeneration of Plane

Juliano Riciardi
Permaculture Course and BioBambu By engaging with the Regeneration of Planet 21 to April 24 The course of more than 40 hours of intensive training (practical and theoretical) in Permaculture. Developed at Station Residential Coastal Permaculture - BEEHIVE HOUSE - The course will be organized and ...
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My land is your land: the Landshare concept

Kirsten Bradley
Landshare is a concept we’ve been excited about for a while. It addresses the huge (and getting huger) issue of land access in an immediate, accessible fashion. In short, people with spare land can offer that land to people who want to grow stuff. That stuff might be vegetables, herbs, c...
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Error report

Gordon Landsburgh
I just want to clarify an error in my prevoius post. The Mayan system i talked about is in fact an Incan system. I found my copt of Permaculture magazine issue 66 winter 2010 and saw my mistake straight away. My apologies for that and i would just like to add my thanks to Steve James for bringing...
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