I am a former high school teacher from Winnipeg, Canada, who has re-located with my family to a small rural community adjacent to Riding Mountain National Park.

While I have been interested in sustainable living, ethical resource management, and food security since the early 1990s, it has only been in the last decade that I have begun to identify with the title "permaculture".

I have taken Geoff Lawton's Permaculture Design Course, and am currently developing the 6 acre property where we live. I am interested in participating in permaculture education, where my teaching background could be put to use extending this movement as quickly and broadly as possible.

Update on Insulated Cold Climate Red Wiggler Home Using Waste Heat

Greenhouse Seedling Start Tips and Tricks: Plastic Food-Bag Pots, Avoiding Multiple Transplants, and Simplifying Watering…

A series of Permaculture 'short-cuts' for improving efficiency when starting seedlings in your greenhouse.

Garden Cart vs. Wheelbarrow: The Right Tool for the Job

Brilliant DIY Garden Cart Dramatically Increases Efficiency, Saves Back Muscles, and Provides a Superior Alternative to a Wheelbarrow for Many Moving Tasks.

Rooting Mystery Solved? Avoid Hard Water.

Making your own Tree Stakes pays $75/hour?

Insulated Cold Climate Red Wiggler Home Using Waste Heat

Oval Soap-Cutting Machine for Home-Made Soap

Willow Windbreak II: On Publishing "failures" (?)

Solar Kiln Update

Goji berry propagation

Cold climate winter work

Making the most of the pre-spring time niche by collecting organic materials that are more challenging to access after the thaw.

Parkland Permaculture's first meeting!

Parkland Permaculture is a permaculture group that meets monthly in Kelwood, Manitoba, and serves the area around Manitoba's Riding Mountain National Park.

Tree tapping trials = "birch beer"

Tapping Sugar Maple, Manitoba Maple, and White Birch...

Solar Lumber Kiln, etc.

Now that my involvement in our community's "Harvest Sun Music Festival" is done for the year, I can think about finishing the Solar Kiln!

Fast, Free Forests

An experiment in rapidly establishing windbreak in minimal time and with NO money.

Rocket Stove Mass Heater Teepee

A "batch load" rocket stove mass heater in a teepee which maintains comfort on windy -30 Celsius evenings for up to 15 people and provides a view of the sideways-burning fire!