The Greening The Desert Project Internship
Every year at The Greening the Desert Project in Jordan (which is a PRI approved demonstration site), Nadia and Geoff Lawton host a month long Internship Programme. Permacultureists and avid students...
View ArticleZaytuna Farm And The Nightcap Bushfire
Geoff has just returned to Zaytuna Farm after three months of consultancies and international aid work. Australia has been ravaged by bushfires, which have consumed over 6.3 million hectares. People...
View ArticleCollecting Clean Water from Polluted Sources with Natural Filtration Systems
Being involved with permaculture helps one develop a mild obsession (and that’s putting it mildly) with water. Long before I was a certified designer, just an avid reader of permaculture texts and...
View ArticleMy Permaculture Design Mistakes
Like anyone, I find it much more inspiring to talk about gardening and building successes. That rhubarb we planted last year has gone nuts! Emma and I have probably foraged 15 kilos of chanterelle...
View ArticleGeoff Lawton’s Permaculture Internship
Looking back to 2011, I recall the fond memories of our internship at PRI Australia. We had been volunteering and travelling round the world for four years looking for adventure, excitement and...
View ArticleCold Climate Permaculture Video
A lot of people wonder if they can apply Permaculture design to their farm if they live in a cold climate. When Geoff Lawton visited Ben Falk’s farm in Vermont earlier this year, he saw the fruit of...
View ArticleExperimenting with Overflowing Circles and Slow-Flow Swales (Panama)
The jungle garden I am not Bill Mollison or Geoff Lawton, they will both happily report; rather, I am but a humble novice when it comes to permaculture, experimenting my way through ideas, mimicking...
View ArticleTexas Food Forest and the Results of Good Design.
Five years ago we moved to our current property in North Texas. While the general area is not particularly challenging, the property itself was. The three acre property has anywhere from 11 inches...
View ArticleBack From the Drought with a Vengeance
Back from the drought with a vengeance, over 300 ml of rain has fallen on Zaytuna Farm, and Geoff is taking us on a rough-cut ramble tour of some of the property’s water systems. Water flows on Zaytuna...
View ArticleA Walk though My Food Forest Swale System After a Rain Event at Nine Mile Farm
Every year the amount of rain we put into the ground per inch that falls increases. In this walk though you see the entire system working from top to bottom and what a great time of year for this to...
View ArticleWater Conservation and Management for Permaculture
Water is perhaps the most essential natural resource. It gives life to plants and has allowed for rich biodiversity in the world’s rainforests. Without it, the Earth would be merely a desert, and not...
View ArticleSwales: The Permaculture Element That Really “Holds Water”
by Rob Avis Michelle, Rowen and I were driving home from a vacation in the mountains when we passed by a swale on a farmer’s field in the middle of Alberta cattle country. Naturally, it piqued my...
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