Natural Swimming
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Unwanted Chemical Pool Gets Permaculture Makeover
Six months into our pool to pond conversion and the problem really has become the solution. For some time, we…
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Converting a Swimming Pool to Grow Fish
Aquaponics is becoming an increasingly popular method of permaculture, probably because it can start with a backyard swimming pool. While…
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Natural Swimming Pools for Passive Holistic Education, Increased Diversity, and Health
Where I grew up, I had two swimming choices. The first was in various rivers and ‘swimming holes’ (deeper parts…
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Keyline Design as an Organizing Pattern for Permaculture Design, Part 2 (Sweden)
This is part 2 of a series of 5 articles looking at design considerations for our Cold Climate Permaculture site…
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Urban Pool-to-Pond Conversion – Two-Year Progress Report
We’re writing on-going articles about the many aspects of this urban permaculture project in a Mediterranean climate, here in California,…
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Small Dam/Fish Pond Installation – October 2011 Earthworks Course with Geoff Lawton
In this short video Geoff walks us through an overview of a small dam/fish pond installation at the PRI’s Zaytuna…
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PRI Ridge Point Dam Earthworks
by Gordon Williams On the 31st of January the Permaculture Earthworks course at Zaytuna Farm began with good weather and…
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Constructing a Fishpond Dam
The spillway that sets the height of the water and allows for passive discharge of surplus water during large rainfall…
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Rosella Waters Earthworks, Phase I, Part B
The Mushroom Dam overlooking the beach area It’s taken a while to find the time to sit down and report…
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