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Spring Preparations - and Patience

Chief Phillip 'Cloudpiler' Landis
I always jump the gun in the Spring.  I look at the catalogs and I plant my seeds indoors, but inveriably I do it all at the wrong time.  My seedlings come on strong and then we have extended bad weather, or a late freeze, and I end up starting all over again because my little plants have spent w...
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Fresh In The Garden

Mark Garrett
Please go to www.permaculturemaldives.blogspot.com to read and see full update.   Thankyou Mark

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The Chicken Tunnel Man

Frank Gapinski
While filming a segment on backyard chickens, we came across a novel approach to improving your garden beds when we visited the garden of Bruce Morgan in Nambour, Queensland. Bruce has been doing Permaculture now for many years and has even taught the "pros" a thing or two over the year...

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open day at sams creek

Rhonda Ayliffe
On National Permy Day (Sunday May 1) - we are hosting our first open day here at Sams Creek as a fund-raiser for our small public school in Cobargo. (vege garden here at sams creek)   As well as opening up our emerging transitional permy garden (and it is very much a garden space in transit...
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La necesidad de extender los Procesos Educativos en la Permacultura

Tierra Martinez
La realidad de los diferentes cursos certificados de diseño que estamos intentando desarrollar es el poder vincular a través de ellos a el desarrollo de proyectos que conecten a cada uno de los participantes de los mismos y que nos permitan ir generando una vinculación tal que ayuden de manera re...

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Growing Season is Upon Us, at least for myself...

Jester Suzuki
4 grow lights, a miniature greenhouse and multiple stands and stacks of books supporting used take-out cups from the cafe I work at, filled with soil and the plants that I just potted up, Tomatoes, Peppers, Sage, Cucumbers, a Moon Squash so far. I got 5 seeds of this squash last summer, and to ke...
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Pictures

Gordon Landsburgh
Please find pics attached below.

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A slight change

Gordon Landsburgh
After a message from the powers that be, I was asked to put this garden project up as a project. So now updates on this will be up in the project pane thingy! I’ll just post other idea’s, bits n bobs and whatnot on here.  
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Garburgh Gardens project

Garburgh Gardens project
Turning a long lawn into a highly productive food growing system and a lovely place to be. This will be a document of my journey through the process.
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Cours d'Initiation au jardinage écologique du 30 mars au 27 avril

Wen Rolland
Pendant les 15 heures de cours, nous explorerons le jardinage écologique sous toutes ses coutures : démarrage et planification d’un nouveau jardin, fertilisation et amendement, rotation de culture, biologie du sol, démarrage de vos semis à l’intérieur, insectes nuisibles et maladies, compostage...
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New goat area

Riki Armstrong
As the weather is so nice we decided to start the goat area.  We're going to build 4 areas in total so the goats can move from one the the other.  It's slow going as there are so many small oak trees to cut down and move out of the way.  We're thinking of using the small trees as the fencing.  Wi...
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Al Baydha Project

Al Baydha Project
The Al Baydha Project is helping settled bedou develop an abundant desert community. "Greening the Desert" on steroids.
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Jean-Pain compost hot water system

Wen Rolland
Here is the video on the Jean Pain experiment at my collective garden. We had a very fine mulch of residues from pruning and tree leaves. We made a pile with this mulch, keeping it wet and compacted. With a hot water tank in the centre of our compost pile, we had hot water (50 °C) throughout the ...

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Extreme cold chicken shelter design in Mongolia

Matthew Lynch
[Excerpt from SEAL 2011 Permaculture Design Training Report, by Matthew Lynch]   Mongolian chickens are very cold hardy breed that lay one egg every 1-2 days from March until October.  There are successful breeders currently raising chickens in Ulgii City; ADRA staff brought us to one fam...

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Composting Toilet Design in Bayan Ulgii

Matthew Lynch
Designing composting toilet systems for Islamic cultures is a delicate matter that demands diplomacy; Moslem belief holds that human organic waste matter is dirty and is something best dealt with by putting it out-of-sight and out-of-mind.  Most households have pit latrines dug into t...

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Permaculture Design Certificate Course, 25 Apr - 8 May 2011

Sabina Arokiam
The standard 72-hour certified Permaculture Design Course will be held in the village setting of Batu Arang, about 40 km away from the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. Hosted by Embun Pagi, the course will be taught by Greg Knibbs, a certified permaculture trainer. Greg will be covering a broad rang...
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Urban Agriculture in Taiwan

Urban Agriculture in Taiwan
Taiwan is a highly urbanized country, which relies heavily on imported energy and the ration of food supply from the country itself is only 33%. Thus we (Earth Passengers) are promoting urban agriculture through community activities.
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A Depth Psychological Exchange on Alchemy, Mythology, and Permaculture: A Candid Conversation with Bonnie Bright and Author/Researcher Willi Paul, Founder of OpenMythSource.com & PlanetShifter.com Magazine on depthinsights.com radio

Willi Paul
A Depth Psychological Exchange on Alchemy, Mythology, and Permaculture: A Candid Conversation with Bonnie Bright and Author/Researcher Willi Paul, Founder of OpenMythSource.com & PlanetShifter.com Magazine on depthinsights.com radio

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