A few weeks ago, my partner I were invited by Elisabeth Fekonia to spend few days at her Permaculture farm, in order to give her a hand with the garden and the animals. We accepted gladly as we knew that in addition to being helpful, we’d also learn a lot. Indeed, Elisabeth is the person who ta...

Since learning about permaculture about three years ago, one of the most interesting questions for me has been how to adapt permaculture principles to a region where the natural climax ecosystem isn't forest but grassland. Tallgrass prairie restoration has been a personal passion of mine for ma...

En øredøvende sang av bambusstenger, som en vindmåler av lyd, regnet faller skrått. Vi står på toppen av det nye Hamsunsenteret i Hamarøy, resepsjonisten anbefalte oss å starte ovenfra og arbeide oss nedover. Det er best å komme seg inn igjen, en utmerket dag for å bli bedre kjent med Knut Hams...

Permaculture Farm (MPF) is an NGO, working farm, and demonstration site for permaculture principles, techniques and strategies, located in the West Bank of Palestine.

This past year taught us a lot of lessons about the land and the direction we want to go. There is the continuing process of sorting out previous systems, ones left over from 10-20 years of different peoples' visions and uses of the land.  This site has been used as pasture, orchards put in and t...

My family and I built a chicken house out of wooden shipping pallets that we stuffed with flakes of straw bales and then plastered with earthen plaster.   It turns out that shipping pallets come in all sizes and shapes, so we found a size that we liked best - approximately 3 feet by 4 feet and s...

A PC demonstration site in downtown Boulder, Colorado complete with honeybees, chickens, orchard, solar and more.

We don't want to cut down trees in order to grow food.  Our site is a shady, second growth, Oak and Hickory forest.  Here's how we have learned to use the tree as our primary supplier of water, fertilizer and insect control, while reducing sun-saturation. By trimming up the lower fifteen feet or...

The runoff from rain (46 inches min. per year), which often comes in great downpours and causes erosion to the nearby lane, my 19 year old son Jeshua built this Bamboo Circle, patterned after Geoff Lawton's Banana Circle in his Introduction to Permaculture Video. This is a winter picture, so it'...

I am using a method that I developed myself for this design. The design method is R.A.D.F. which it means: Reflect-Research,Analize,Design,Feedback.   Reflect Before studying and applying permaculture in my life,I always had some difficulties to individuate permaculture products and services...

We are Hombres de Maíz, an organization of young permaculture enthusiasts building a 9 Meters Diameter Earthbag Building as a classroom for the Kids of &th Grade and we would like to share it with everyone.

We've been doing some systems analysis of our Perma Project and prioritizing for the coming thaw.  We've had some very unseasonably (strange) wintery weather here that pretty much shuts down the jobs I had outlined a month ago.  Normally, I would be digging swales and building berms, assembling s...

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Beehive House: a Self-Sustainable House The Project Beehive House was started in February 2009 by the family of artists and designers permaculture Riciardi Julian, Teresa Dominot Tiê and his son, who conceived and built with his own hands, on the southern coast of Santa Catarina. It is located...

Sector39 is a pertnership of permaculture teachers and sustainability practitioners. We are based in the Wales borderlands and mainly work in this area. We run courses, design and manage gardens and landcapes and are involved in cooperative development.

Model of the famous waterwheels of Hama in Syria, in the gardens on the National Museum of Damascus. In the photo, see the diesel pump on the right used to spin the wheel to move water to make the model look more real. I don't know if this, or the fact that it wasn't working at all and there...

Come and learn about growing food and how to live self-sufficient in temperate climate.

Demonstration garden with different garden-rooms.