The local Council agreed that a Permaculture Garden would be great as an educational tool within the Wollongong Botanic Gardens. I was asked to draw up some plans but given some really interesting boundaries! It had to look like an Edna Walling Garden for one.

We purchased this home, built in 1890, in the fall of 2010 with cash--meaning no mortgage. God bless post-industrial cities and their low housing costs! Our project entails retrofitting the home (1000 square feet), converting the cinderblock gargage into an efficiency apartment/heated greenhous...

Getting fish for your new aquaponics system is fairly easy to do online in Australia. I'm sure the process is similar in your country too. You need to track down a hatchery in your state or country. Some US states have very strict rules about what sort of fish you can grow at home. Til...

2 days ago I had dug this one of eight holes for Elaeagnus multiflora. Soon after I had finished it filled up with melted water (you can see that some of the water stayed until the next frost the night before) slowly flowing down the slope in the first 10 cm of the soil - I decided to dig a sma...

Private 5 ha area in Costa Atlantica, Alentejo.

40 years ago, in response to the suicide of a child, Mrs. Asaba created a private art school, where children would blossom. In 2009 she came across permaculture and said 'Thats what Im doing!'. Asaba art square now has a cafe, edible gardens, Gallery, Annual Art festival, and hosts intern...

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The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, known for instigating the famous bicycle protest at Copenhagen, explain how permaculture influences their approach to activism and civil disobedience - this interview with the Laboratory's co-founders Isa Fremeaux and John Jordan is from the ...

The Detroit Works project to redesign Detroit provides the teachers, staff and students with a unique opportunity to apply permaculture at a breadth and scale perhaps never attempted. We hope to encourage persons involved in Detroit Works, and individuals, businesses and organizations from around...

Forest Gardens, Ponds fed by gutters, free winter heating research

After completing certificate III in Permaculture as a intern, @ Djanbung Gardens I decided that it was time for me to go & enter into that 'big wide world/bioregion' & implement what I have learned over the last 1.5 years into another property. Great experience, setting up broad beds...

Just so you know, we make and sell DVDs on Aquaponics with Aquaponics guru Murray Hallam. But this isnt a sales pitch. I don't care if you buy one of our DVDs or not. The truth is a couple of years ago I got interested in Aquaponics and wanted to know more. I was never very good at keeping fish...

Seghersecoplant is a compagny that builds natural waterpurification systems and is supported by a nursery of 60 different plants with high purifying potential. At present the owner has opened a hotel in Uganda and is trying the work out his systems in the subtropical. The compagny is now only run...

The concept of ‘sustainability’ is too often misused to suggest that with only minor adjustments to our modern rich-world lifestyles, we can enjoy indefinitely the extraordinary benefits of economic growth and extend these to more and more people in the poor world. In particular, because economi...

Photos by poxin.org taken in the Heart Gardens.