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A unique learning opportunity focused on how we can provide nutritious affordable food while enhancing biodiversity.

February 20, 2019 by Paul Alfrey & filed under Aid Projects, Biodiversity, Courses/Workshops, Design, Education, Education Centres, Food & Food Support Systems, General, Land, Medicinal Plants, Nurseries & Propogation, Permaculture Projects, Plant Systems, Plants, Soil, Why Permaculture?

We are on a mission to discover methods of landscape management that can provide nutritious affordable food while enhancing biodiversity. We are delighted to be offering a unique opportunity to take part in our study, would you like to join us ? What are we doing ? We are undertaking a multi year study of market gardening growing herbs, vegetables and perennial fruit and nut polycultures. The study aims to […]

The Herbs of Zaytuna Farm – Rosemary

February 18, 2019 by Amatullah Duniam & filed under Biodiversity, Demonstration Sites, Food & Food Support Systems, Food Forests, Food Plants - Perennial, General, How to, Medicinal Plants, Permaculture Projects, Plant Systems, Plants, Recipes, Why Permaculture?

Welcome to Zaytuna Farm. To get here you turned off the highway and drove through rolling hills, covered with macadamia plantations, dairy and beef herds, essential oil plantations of native trees and shrubs, and vegetable farms. You turn into the driveway, and follow the dirt road down the hill until you see the wooden sign for parking. You pull into the shade of some giant bamboo and park your car. […]

How to Design and Build A Forest Garden – Part 1. Surveying

February 15, 2019 by Paul Alfrey & filed under Demonstration Sites, Design, Education Centres, Food Plants - Annual, Food Plants - Perennial, General, How to, Medicinal Plants, Permaculture Projects, Plants, Soil, Trees

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 […]

Ponds can absorb more carbon than woodland – here’s how they can fight climate change in your garden

February 13, 2019 by pri02 & filed under Aquaculture, Dams, Design, Earthworks & Earth Resources, General, How to, Irrigation, Land, Natural Swimming, Permaculture Projects, Retrofitting, Storm Water, Water, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Why Permaculture?

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 […]

Permaculture’s Origin Story: Mollison’s PDM. Oh, and Nature

February 11, 2019 by Geoff Lawton & filed under 30min-60min, Community, Design, Education, Films, General, Geoff Lawton, Land, Permaculture Projects, Soil, Soil Biology, Videos, Water, Why Permaculture?

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 […]

Permaculture Magazine Prize 2019

February 9, 2019 by pri02 & filed under Aid Projects, Alternatives to Political Systems, Commercial Farm Projects, Community, Community Projects, Demonstration Sites, Design, Developments, Education, Education Centres, Ethical Investment, Events, Resources & News, General, Land, Networking Sites, News, People Systems, Permaculture Projects, Project Positions, Urban Projects, Why Permaculture?

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 […]

An Urban Food Forest and Therapy Garden: Angelo and Lana’s Journeys

February 7, 2019 by pri02 & filed under 30min-60min, Biodiversity, Community, Community Projects, Demonstration Sites, Design, Eco-Villages, Ethical Investment, Films, Food Forests, Food Shortages, General, Global Warming/Climate Change, How to, Insects, Land, Medicinal Plants, Nurseries & Propogation, People Systems, Permaculture Projects, Plant Systems, Plants, Seeds, Soil, Trees, Urban Projects, Videos, Village Development, Why Permaculture?

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 […]

TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF HEALTHCARE – PART 2

February 5, 2019 by Kate Martignier & filed under Bio-regional Organisations, Community, Consumerism, General, Health & Disease, How to, People Systems, Recipes, Why Permaculture?

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 […]

Where is the World?

February 2, 2019 by Salah Hammad & filed under 15min-30min, Biodiversity, Films, Fungi, General, How to, Soil, Soil Biology, Soil Composition, Soil Conservation, Soil Erosion & Contamination, Soil Rehabilitation, Soil Salination, Structure, Videos, Why Permaculture?

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 […]

TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF HEALTHCARE – PART 1

January 28, 2019 by Kate Martignier & filed under General, Health & Disease, How to, Networking Sites, People Systems, Society, Village Development

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 […]

Crisis, Hope, and Permaculture

January 27, 2019 by Geoff Lawton & filed under Biodiversity, Deforestation, Desertification, Design, Films, Fungi, General, Geoff Lawton, Land, Permaculture Projects, Soil, Soil Biology, Soil Composition, Soil Conservation, Soil Salination, Trees, Videos, Water, Why Permaculture?

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?

KUROIWA PERMACULTURE FARM

January 26, 2019 by Emilio Barranco & filed under Alternatives to Political Systems, Commercial Farm Projects, Community, Community Projects, Demonstration Sites, Eco-Villages, General, How to, Permaculture Projects, Village Development, Why Permaculture?

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 […]