Last Autumn we tried out a new course format, the “Design ‘n Build”, an intensive practical course where we go through the whole design process and complete the build of a project within 3 days. We had an amazing group join us for our first course and managed to complete the design and build of a 100 m2 forest garden consisting of around 120 plants representing 22 species (not including […]
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Mike Jeffries Associate Professor, Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle. Ponds are taken for granted. Perhaps it’s because most of us have seen them – and on occasion, fallen into them – and think they’re only good for goldfish. Ponds may be the number one habitat for children’s “minibeast” hunts, but we are supposed to grow […]
The last video of the 4-part Permaculture Masterclass series is now complete with this 40-minute video titled “Permaculture’s Origin Story: Mollison —and Nature.” Click here to watch the video: https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/12457/xUvmUanf This one is special to me for two reasons: First is that I talk about Bill (Mollison) — the “Father of Permaculture,” my teacher, and above all, my friend. Bill passed away in 2016, but his continued impact on the world […]
This article was first published in the Permaculture Magazine. The second Permaculture Magazine Prize is now open with £25,000 to be awarded to projects showing best practice permaculture in ecological, social and cultural design. This groundbreaking prize aims to highlight the worldwide successes of the growing permaculture movement. We’re excited to announce the launch of the second Permaculture Magazine Prize. The Permaculture Magazine Prize 2019 is launched with a […]
Once a novice gardener, Lana’s garden now contains 50 beds and produces enough for her to sell $500/week at the local farmers market. “An Urban Food Forest and Therapy Garden” is the latest in my 4-part Masterclasses series. Check out the short trailer below : In the same video we have Angelo from Deep Green Permaculture. With access to only a small backyard, he showed ow you can […]
How did we become dependent on the doctor visit and the prescription? What happened to the ways we cared for our families before modern pharmaceutical medicine? When the globalized economy replaces local ways of living, people exchange broad skills and community-reliance for specialized career paths. Instead of sharing time and resources with family and neighbours to meet everybody’s needs, people start to work jobs to pay for basics and for […]
Professor Claude Bourguinon, co-founder of the Laboratoire Analyses Microbiologiques Sols (LAMS), an independent soil testing laboratory helping farmers understand their soil and how to sustainability manage it, shares his thoughts on the importance of soil fauna and microbiology to the sustainability of farming the land. He also explains how the loss of ecosystems due to the transition from an agro-silvo-pastoral model to monoculture agriculture (Green Revolution) impacts our globe. Featured […]
The doctor visit and the pharmaceutical prescription usually get us back on the job quickly and with a minimum of inconvenience. Modern pharmaceutical medicine is like the medical equivalent of fast food – it’s fast, it’s convenient, and too much of it erodes our health over time. In contrast, at-home healthcare and natural remedies are like home-cooked, real food, in that they take more time and effort. They also work […]
A “Green New Deal” is on everyone’s lips, but how do we actually get there? Our brand new “Green is the New Silver (Lining): Crisis, Hope, and Permaculture,” (http://bit.ly/hope-permaculture) the first of 4 videos in our free-to-view “Permaculture Masterclass,” offers one possible answer. And if we do this right, we can go far beyond organic, beyond sustainability — and towards building thriving communities of abundance. You ready?
Name of the Farm: 黒岩 Permaculture Farm Farm site: Niigata, Joetsu, Kakizaki. History: We like life in the countryside, but since get married, we lived at big cities in Spain and Japan. Both worked on unpleasant jobs, and we felt that we needed a change in our way of life. Me (Emilio) had been studying Permaculture for 15 years studying in a self-taught way, and doing small practical with friends […]
I cant swim, but I’ve been fascinated by water all my life and have learnt water harvesting and storage design and installation from some of the permaculture greats bio here. I mentioned in a recent article the details about the construction of a series of ponds forming a wetland in Western Australia. At that same project, I had the opportunity of doing some work on a seasonal creek where I advised the […]
Featured Photo : Photo: Corn, Beans, Squash, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Amaranth and Gardener Last year I worked a couple of gardens with a friend/boss, Buck, who has been cultivating these spaces for decades. Though some of his techniques don’t jive with my permaculture sensibilities, such as tilling every year and walking in garden beds, on many things we were in lock-step. For example, once our seedlings had popped up a few […]
