I would say this year is the turning point. Not any single day or project, but just generally things are starting to pay back. It's one thing to talk about shading south windows with Grapes and quite another to actually have grape vines on wires reaching for the second floor. (the ripe grapes I ...

RISE blends a residential village, destination spa resort, organic farm and educational institute into one interconnected community. RISE is a place to embrace learning, wellbeing, and living in their most beautifully expressed forms.

Today in Iran like so many other countries the number of people who are able to provide their own nourishments and food ingredients is very small. Pursuant urban spaces expanding and industrial life and capitalism, city residents in their modern life style, don’t really think about food productio...

There is another stage of renovation going on. I have had plumbing, heating and electricity done. Now for a kitchen, room and bathroom for myself. There are going to be a few new windows installed and floors laid. Had to take a loan for that. Working on a bathroom cabinet and wooden beds in a fam...

The Willi Paul Interview - excerpt - Q: Why is the community now a better hero force than the individual? WOX: In a word, corruption. Money and frame have crumpled the individual to posters and talk shows, all for profit. I say we by-pass the movie stars and lieutenant generals and empower the ...

40 acre homestead in rural Missouri for permaculture food forest demonstration and eventual learning site.

About a year ago we transitioned from urban Atlanta to rural South Missouri near Springfield in the Ozarks. We currently have 40 acres of primarily flat pasture with around ten of that wooded. In March we installed 1000 feet of swales in a 2 acre paddock on the site. We have been documenting th...

We will discuss 14 new mythology topics using content from Planetshifter.com and then each participant will create and share a creative work (image, text or video) with the workshop. http://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2466

An attempt to green and bring biodiversity to the monoculture sandy desert. Grape fields on the upper and right side, mono crop maize and tomato fields on the left side. Kitchen and market garden with sunken beds are already supllying for our needs and our CSA scheme. Windbrake system and ...

50 km west from Lisboa, on a 6 hectare plot, to regenerate a degraded sandy soil from monoculture crops until 2013. To produce yields for the family, relatives, neighbors and friends (CSA scheme).

PDC at Rancho Mastatal Costa Rica, April 24 to May 7 2018 Scholarships Available Join our diverse team of permaculture instructors Scott Gallant, Chris Shanks, Rachel Jackson, Laura Killingbeck and others for this annual life-changing 2-week experience. The course covers the core Permaculture ...

Working with and for two charitable humanitarian agencies Michael was involved to design a master Permaculture/Agroforestry Design Plan for the Muungano Primary School in Kenya near Bofu. The plan includes Windbreaks to limit road dust, water harvesting Swale based food forests, small livestock, ...

- excerpt - Noah is living in a slow perpetually constricting water torture from the storm monster and the local, state and Federal governments “post-sustainability” recovery process. There is was no dike and there is no dike and recovery is stalled from toxic water, horrible (inconvenient) sa...

- excerpt - a. Two key parameters are consistency vs. elasticity. b. Central to product research: heat vs. non-heat. c. What is the effect of flash heating on health of soil / microbes?

Don't have a lot of time to update right now, but a fellow permie alerted me that my profile is grossly out of date, so I thought I would do what I can in five minutes. We've moved a couple times in Central Kentucky since my last post. Right now, my husband and I are both working for Asbury Theol...

141 acre site in Monmouthshire

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New School Permaculture PDC Permaculture Design Course    Island of S. Miguel - Azores - Portugal September  2017   Course by Helder Valente and the New School Permaculture  Team   In this course you will learn the New School Permaculture design secrets. ...