Events Contact us for more information on any session you are interested in. 2011 Calendar of Events. MonthDateEventComments February 5 Farm Tour. Booking necessary - cost $15/person.   19 Farn Tour Booking necessary - cost $15/person. March 5 Farm Tour ...

Living in eastern Washington is an interesting contrast to my previous life on the moist west-side of the Cascade Mountains.  Here, there is Big Sky due to the essentially flat nature of the Columbia Basin and I get significant wind out of the southeast.  This wind is desiccating in an already se...

Turning a small organic family farm and orchard into a permaculture project. 8 acres in a temperate cold arid climate.

 I thought I would upload and test how the photo feature on this website works.

You may have heard this story but as it is relevant, I will repeat it here.   I was teaching a PDC at the community garden in Dungog (home of Doug Walters) and on the introduction I was showing and talking about publications participants might like to read as further education. I showed Linda ...

A eco friendly bed and breakfast inn and permaculture demonstration project/educational site on 3 acres in the North Georgia mountains.

I'm a young guy developing a rural permaculture homestead outside of Kettle Falls, Washington. I've lived on the twenty acre site since 2010. Focuses include extensive food forest, indigenous ethnobiology, and appropriate technology.

There is no doubt that we can shape our world. As the Chinese use to say, the "outside"landscape is a reflection of our inner landscape. When we first stepped on this land, it was a very degraded, compacted, and full of ticks area, after 30 years of extensive cattle raising. But despite all this...

This is a simple residential concept in using the rainfall from a roof to generate enough power to help homes living off battery arrays to keep a charge on them from rainfall or wind, as a small windmill is integrated to pump water back up, or, generate on its own. The simple system will use t...

Building an intentional community that can self sustain, educate, and be happy.

Valentine’s Day Turns Green Around Tampa BayFeb. 10th-17th. On the week of Valentine's organizations across the Tampa bay area will show the film "Home" towards building a higher level of social consciousness of our interconnected relationship with the environment. http://www.homethemovie...

Code Green Community is a collection of individuals pursuing a common goal of growing a local resilient and sustainable community in the greater Tampa Bay area. We come together with specific tasks of collaboration on sustainable projects both individually and as a group to transition our communi...

Gralha Azul Farm was started on a degraded pasture at the Mantiqueira Mountain Range, a very steep and rainy region, to show that agriculture can restore the land. It is Alex's family home, office, and habitat.

  Purple Pear commenced in 2006 when Kate and Mark moved from a rented property in Dungog to start the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) WWOOFer's have been an amazing help in establishing the farm. Young and old have bought not only energy but also love and fun and culture to the mix. We...

Today I was giving a great opportunity to learn more about running a professional greenhouse business and about professional beekeeping.   I took the day off to visit a farm close to my home (http://www.ilcampodeifiori.com/), and I worked with the owner, Marco Lanzoni, in the greenhouse where w...

If only there was a way to blend them... Ahh, in a perfect matrix, that would be possible :-P

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