THE ORIGINS In Italy this type of agriculture is very well known, and is having a lot of success. Synergistig Agriculture, developed by Emilia Hazelip (spanish permaculturist) in France, where she lived, is an "experiment" of Permaculture and Fukuoka's Natural Farming. You can find the vid...

This is the design of my portfolio for the diploma in applied permaculture. It groups all my designs including the PDC final design and some informations about permaculture as I see it. I will approach this design using the CEAP design process,Collecting informations,Evaluating those inf...

View of Scagnello village where this project is taking place.   Keyline scale of permanence Yeomans Keyline planning and scale of permanence: CLIMATE LANDSHAPE WATER ROADS TREES: PLANT SYSTEMS,MICROCLIMATE BUILDINGS SUBDIVISION SOIL   I am using the scale of permanence also for t...

Permaculture demonstration gardens at the Oregon State University Student Sustainability Center. As hands-on projects during two PDCs, we installed a 20' diameter herb galaxy spiral, food forest, and annual gardens.

in Lismore, NSW. Australia. The owner turns to me and asks “Who are all these people?” I whisper to her while loading the video camera that these people are all Permaculture Interns from around the world. Canada, the United States and Europe.  They’ve all descended on her little country...

In the last couple years, I have ignored both the grapes and the gooseberries as far as pruning went, probably because I do not live at the property, and was away doing other things. But finally this winter I pruned the two grape vines and the gooseberry bush quite far back. I left at least two b...

We decided that we wanted to build using only Earth-Friendly and Sustainable Methods and, no sooner had we made this decision, we were met with a major obstacle - where and how to live during the years it would take to build suitable shelter. Most people consider an old, used Mobile Home as havi...

The Asia-Pacific Center for Regenerative Design has been contracted by the NGO group ADRA-Monoglia to facilitate a two-week 'Sustainable Agriculture & Economic Learning' course. Southern Cross Permaculture Institute (Australia) will act as an advisor to the project, building upon t...

Draft of presentation for 'Permaculture Principles' lesson to be facilitated in Bayan Ulgii province, Outer Mongolia to launch 4-year 'Sustainable Agriculture & Economic Learning' Project in Bayan Ulgii province (Outer Mongolia) March 2011, sponsored by ADRA. Click here to view the full...

East Ft Worth Montessori Academy focuses on Outdoor Learning Education through teaching children, their parents, the community, and the staff and administration about the possibilities and opportunities within nature.

With 6 PDCs planned for this summer in the UK and abroad its going to be one action learning packed adventure! http://www.integralpermanence.org/teaching-courses.html Heres a link to courses in the UK and Thailand.  Were proud to offer Compassionate Communication optional workshops with most of...

A tropical food forest designed to thrive in a monsoonal (wet/dry) climate, with a nucleus on TWO 1/4 acre suburban blocks (but extending into the bordering properties to give an approximate area approaching 1 acre). Currently still in establishment phase, but will soon be used as a site for tour...

Dave and Kate were both reading the Intro to Pc and came to the bit with an island built from old tyres. It was considered a great idea to slosh around in the mud building the refuge for the birds. We had some old tyres laying around from a failed project years ago and we  laid them out on the b...

  There was no chance of getting a full design for my friend's new house completed in time (before I left Australia).  Therefore, what I provided were some suggestions but warned them they would need to note the existing plants on the property and monitor the sun, wind, moisture, slope and ...

For this working bee we welcomed a few new people. We built a no-dig garden bed on top of an old one which was damaged during the flood. Then planted alyssum, egg plant and tomato seedlings. I used some palm fronds to provide some shade for the seedlings to protect them from the often burning sun.

I got to the blitz early afternoon, having some other commitments earlier. I helped manage the construction of the social space, using some large logs as seats and retaining walls for the Taro bog. I was too preoccupied with work to take more photos but there may be some coming from others on fac...

The Gold Coast is attempting to achieve sustainable out comes across the city under it's "Bold Futures" program.Members of Gold Coast permaculture and the community are working collaboratively to achieve this common goal. INTREST We begin on the Gold Coast by gaining interest.This interest is g...

On the border of my 35th birthday, I find myself in a near-complete Portuguese luxury resort doing very unresort-like things: collecting cow manure from the fields, shovelling this into an attempted 18-going-on-30-day compost heap and cooking wild plant gourmet food with a tribe who "joined force...