It’s been a while since I last posted in here, so I’ll share with you a couple of the things that have been keeping me busy. FIRST, permaculture is BOOMING. I’ve been at it for more than 30 years, and even I get dizzy with the sheer variety of things happening. So I’ve decided to put together a ...

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The goal is to create a permacultural station, where we can educate people about permaculture, sustainable living and healthy alimentation

Since 2015 I've been working with Urbanag CIC to develop methods for using Aquaponics in Permaculture. URBANAG is a social enterprise registered as a Community Interest Company with a mission to promote the aims and objectives of urban agriculture (UA) within the United Kingdom as a mainstream c...

Background:We have lived here since 1979 and mostly used our field and woods as an extended playground for our 3 sons and all their friends from the village. Over the years there were tree-house forts built connected with rope bridges, a mountain bike trail laid out, a zip wire, various rope swin...

Aim: Redevelop our home base and the attached land known as Acres Wood. The biggest grouping of my ideas for Diploma Designs are all to do with my home base and the attached plot of land known as Acres Wood. So as it was all too big, complex, and extended over time to be just one design I thoug...

Join best-selling permaculture author Toby Hemenway for a dynamic and practical course on creating your home ecosystem. Imagine living in a yard that overflows with food and other useful products such as medicine, fiber, and building supplies. Your yard can also shrink home energy bills, extend...

This blog is now available as an mp3 podcast through the link: http://ferngladefarm.com.au/2016 Aug 15 - Sprinter.mp3 Hope you are all enjoying the podcast. You can either listen to the podcast directly using your Internet browser or you can simply download the file (using the Save Link As opt...

For the past few years I've been developing this site. The site has a hut with two bunk beds c/w rocket mass heater, and a long drop compost toilet. About a year ago I was diagnosed with an agressive onset of MS, and since October last year I've been to the site twice. As things look I wont be he...

1. A public workshop conference, with translation into Creole 2. A Communal Development Plan (design course in permaculture) recognised at international level 3. Five days of intensive training for farmers and producers

Santa Cruz Permaculture provides community development, land stewardship, holistic education, and eco-social design services for a thriving, just and sustainable world.

here is a few photos of a  hot house build using all recycled materials the wood is off cuts from the locals sawmill 50m down the road a 20$ pack of beer to pick up as much wood as i could and the plastic is from local building sites and it was used to cover and protect gib boards the screws c...

here is a photo of the first planting day of a 300 m² food forest  and a photo of the same place 9 months after 2 queences and 5 plum trees, 2 lemon , 4 mandarine, 2 oranges  was al ready on site and we  planted 4 guava trees, 5 apple trees, 1 peach tree, 7 tagasatste trees, severals cranberries...

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For the past few years I've been developing a site in the high country of New Zealand's South Island. The site has a hut with two bunk beds c/w rocket mass heater, and a long drop compost toilet. About a year ago I was diagnosed with an agressive onset of MS, and since October last year I've been...

I am very happy to have been involved with the formation of a Kitchen garden program at Amamoor State School and am now the program co-ordinator.  The garden has been installed to teach the students about sustainability through the ethics of permaculture.  Each week the children spend time learni...

Amamoor school is a small school in rural Qld at the heart of what was once a vibrant farming community but was torn apart by the state government's now defunct Traveston Dam project. The area now has a largely new population of tree changers and the school began the kitchen garden project i...

We built an adobe rabbit housing system modified off of a research paper I found.  The research paper discussed Egyptian and Italian dry climates and how to protect rabbits from heat is these climates.  Our rabbit system has 4 rows of 5 cages per row.  They have a metal cage that connects to the ...