I have been studying Holistic Management with a Beginning Women Farmers group here in central New York.  The course is really aimed at creating a knowledgeable, successful farmer.  It has prodded me to look at numbers more intensely which leads me to really research my intended crops.  I am tryin...

The Church of the Divine Love in Montrose, NY installed a sheet-mulched vegetable garden in the spring of 2010 in a convenient bit of lawn behind the church fellowship hall.  In their first season they were able to provide hundreds of servings of high-quality fresh vegetables to the Cortland Emer...

Many churches have small pieces of land, usually in lawn, that are not actively used but that must be managed at the church's expense. If a small percentage of such churches would plant low-maintenance vegetable gardens and fruit trees to provide fresh produce for their local emergency food ...

As with any project, sometimes the "needs" must come before the "wants" and it didn't take long after purchasing the property to discover the roof was caving in on the underground root cellar / water well pressure tank house!  This would never do and I resolved to rebuild the arched roof before t...

I have picked out cold-germinating, frost tolerant seeds to plant as the idea is to create a micro-climate rather than a controlled climate. The plants need to tolerate a good amount of frost, because the night temperatures outside will still be going down to 10F or lower. Species list: Arugula...

Earth Passengers was founded to promote and implement environmental education in Taiwan in 2000. Since 2002, 3 years after one of the co-founders, Peter Morehead completed his PDC with Geoff Lawton, we started working on promoting Permaculture education in Taiwan. Earth Passengers held Taiwan&#...

Here is an illustrated copy of my Masters Degree Thesis in Permaculture Education. http://gaiacraft.com/free-books/

the purpose of ape99 is to disburse, improve upon and invent technologies for living as natural and sustainable a lifestyle as possible with permaculture as its foundation.

Design and implement 1/3 acre suburban property.

CLCA (Childrens Learning and Culture Association) was established 70 years ago, creating houses where children could live away from their families, cooking and caring for each other, even helping build their own houses. This community garden is for their mothers, to experiance their 'Best Sel...

With February already half gone, I'm looking forward to a teaching schedule that includes the Indiana University Permaculture Design Course, a weekend pdc in the fall, a children's series, a few specific workshops for the city-run People's University, and a new workshop weekend that combines perm...

Jude and Michel  Fanton are preparing multi media presentations for future seed travels. Resources include 200 hours of footage we shot in 13 countries, photography and material we have already wrote and published. We typically spend six months a year on projects  and six months gardening and mak...

Ananda Suruci Permaculture volunteers needed at ashram in southern taiwan www.anandasuruci.org Hi all.  I am teaching a dpc at an ashram in southern Taiwan right now.  Very beautiful place,and very nice people. The place functions as a fasting retreat center, and now also permaculture ...

Last year saw the first breeding year for our rabbits. We were pretty happy with the mothers after their inexperience with their first litters led to losses. During the summer months a lot of food for an increasing number of rabbits came from the garden and kitchen scraps. The second and third se...

Ananda Suruci is a spiritual eco-village in Southern Taiwan. We offer Yoga Fasting Retreats and Permaculture Design Courses (PDC) and we host student camps, seminars and spiritual retreats.