From Bare Dirt To Abundance - A Year In The Life Of The Love For Life Food Forest. Permaculture & Alcohol Can Be A Gas. Permaculture Australia – enabling new initiatives in design for sustainability. Journey to Forever. Permaculture with Jack Spirko Part 13 - Understanding the Hydrology of Swales. Installing Swales Part 1 Marking Contour Lines Video. How To Build Swales On Countor To Hold Water And Grow Food. Geoff Lawton's Online Permaculture Earthworks Course. The Overstory #35--Animals in Agroforestry. How to Raise Chickens - Poultry. How to raise Meat Chickens. Out to Pasture: The Future of Farming? The Agro Rebel. Geoff Lawton Harvesting Water the Permaculture Way (2008) Hugelkultur beds and swales. Sepp Holzer Permaculture Talk Part 2. Permaculture - join the r-evolution. Sepp Holzer Says: Select your Best Plant Replant in Worst Soil. Pastured Beef, Eggs, Chicken & Pork | Permaculture. Sources: Jeff Nugent’s audio DVD of the Stanley, Tasmania, Bill Mollison 1983 PDC, In Grave Danger of Falling Food and the permies of occupy-wallstreet.com Permaculture at Occupy Wall Street Confrontation of the criminal class responsible for the corporate coup of the US, is vital and long overdue.
But there is also a need to take responsibility and design intelligent, local strategies, to prevent the same problems of scale from repeating themselves. The notion of self sufficiency is key. I can’t express how happy it makes me to learn that the implementation of sustainability and permaculture principles is spreading to many Occupy encampments –and spreading with the same momentum as the Occupy Movement itself.Many of the Occupy encampments have set up committees to analyze their own environmental impact, and conceive of practical solutions.
Bill Mollison Permaculture Design Course 1983. Sepp Holzer permaculture part1. 2008 Lawton Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way. La meilleure éolienne de la planète (jusqu'à preuve du contraire) Temperate Climate Permaculture. Permaculture - Problems to Solutions. SUBHEAD: Part 4 of a 6 part series on Permaculture Design Guidelines. By Birgit Bradtke in Tropical Permaculture in 2010 - ( Image above: The Opiuma tree (Pithecellobium dulce) is one I take down if its growing nearby. It thrives in Hanapepe Valley and in ten years can be a problem. Although it is a nitrogen fixer it is parasitic. "You don't have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency! " That is this permaculture principle in a nutshell, summed up in one of Bill Mollison's most popular quotes. If you see yourself confronted with a perceived problem, why not try and look at the situation from a different angle?
A common example for this permaculture principle, one that you will find cited in many permaculture books, is that low lying spot at the bottom end of your garden. You know, the spot that's always muddy, where the water just won't drain away and you just can't get the lawn grass to grow... Got an ugly wall? Feral Pig Biology. Distribution | Habitat | Behaviour | Impact Origin The feral pig in Australia is a descendant of various breeds of Sus scrofa, the domestic pig.
In the north of Australia there is some indication that a number of other species of pigs were also brought to Australia, including Sus celebensis and Sus papuensis. Records indicate the presence of domestic pigs immediately following the arrival of the First Fleet. Pigs were kept by settlements unrestrained and in semi-feral conditions. Stock could readily escape and wander, and by the 1880s pigs had run wild in NSW.
Distribution Feral pigs are widely distributed in NSW, Queensland, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. In NSW, feral pig populations are found primarily in western areas, their distribution closely related to the location of inland watercourses and flood plains. Habitat Feral pigs need to live in moist areas that can provide adequate food and water and enough shelter to protect against extremes of temperature. Permaculture eXchange | Sustainable living, farming and community education and information. How to Make Charcoal Soap. How to Make Soap From Ashes.
Water Harvesting and Storage Permaculture Research Institute - Permaculture Forums, Courses, Information & News. By Adrian Buckley, Permaculture Designer, B. of Community Design, Calgary, Canada Good soil is nothing without water! Fortunately, there are simple and inexpensive methods available to us for capturing and storing rain water to meet our irrigation needs. It all starts from a firm understanding of how water flows on your property and designing to make the most use of it. Water, Access, Structures Permaculture design always starts with water, then access ways are planned, and finally, structures.
So let’s talk about water first. Water The best place to store water is in the soil. Beavers’ dams function to encourage stream and river water to seep into the ground around their dams, hydrating the ground and creating springlines in downhill regions. If we want to keep water at plants’ roots, we must capture water during rain events and store it in the soil, so that it stays on our site longer. Swales Water is held long enough in the swale for it to seep into the soil below. Access Further Reading: Bill Mollison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Iceweasel. Bruce Charles 'Bill' Mollison (born 1928 in Stanley, Tasmania, Australia) is a researcher, author, scientist, teacher and Biologist. He is considered to be the 'father of permaculture',[1] however Joseph Russell Smith, was the first to write about a system of Permanent Agriculture in a book entitled Tree Crops, published in 1929.[2] Permaculture is an integrated system of design, Mollison co-developed with David Holmgren, that encompasses not only agriculture, horticulture, architecture and ecology, but also economic systems, land access strategies and legal systems for businesses and communities.
In 1978, Mollison collaborated with David Holmgren, and they wrote a book called Permaculture One. Bill Mollison founded The Permaculture Institute in Tasmania, and created a training system to train others under the umbrella of Permaculture. He received the Right Livelihood Award in 1981 with Patrick van Rensburg. Bibliography[edit] Articles Mollison, Bill (15–21 September 1978). See also[edit] Permaculture eXchange | FAQ - Iceweasel. Q: Is permaculture just gardening? In short, no. Permaculture is a design system for sustainability, which includes gardening in terms of food production, but it also includes other life systems such as energy-efficiency, water, recycling, and land stewardship. In it’s full form, it encompasses economic and social structures that support the evolution and development of more permanent communities.
Permaculture design concepts are applicable to urban as well as rural settings, and are appropriate for single households as well as whole farms and villages. Q: Is permaculture just theory? Permaculture as a design science is theory, but there are many practical applications that have been put in place since it’s inception in the 1970′s. Many of the appropriate technologies advocated by permaculturists are well known and used in our every day lives, including solar and wind power, composting toilets, solar greenhouses, energy efficient housing, and solar food cooking and drying.
Permaculture Miracles in the Austrian Mountains | Use Celsias.com - reduce global °Celsius - Iceweasel. I'd like to introduce you to Sepp Holzer , a man who not only produces food in a very unlikely location, at a high and frigid altitude in Austria, but is also growing very unlikely crops there as well -- and all without the use of chemicals, and with minimal input of human labour.
I guess you could call him a European counterpart of people like Bill Mollison and Masanobu Fukuoka -- as all three independently discovered ways of working with nature that save money and labour and that don't degrade the environment, but actually improve it. In Holzer's case, he was effectively running a permaculture farm for more than two decades before he even realised his unconventional approach could be termed 'permaculture'.
What's more, the land he cultivates so successfully today had notoriously poor soil when he originally inherited it. Not anymore. Holzer states his path to success began when he realised he had to discard what he'd learned in agricultural college. Further Reading: The Permaculture Concept - Part One - YouTube - Iceweasel. Jean Pain Compost Heating | Ingienous Designs - Iceweasel. Jean Pain was an ingenious French inventor who composted woody biomass on his farm to make fertile soil while collecting large amounts of emission-free energy. The Jean Pain Mound is a large pile of chipped forest wood brush (up to 40 tons) with a bioreactor in the middle and plastic piping spiraling through the pile to absorb the heat of decomposing wood mass. It produces: methaneheat for hot watercompost from wood chips His exciting discovery is the basis of an integrated and holistic energy and soil solution to build decentralized and resilient communities around the globe.
Figure 1: A Jean Pain Compost (Source: Compost Power Network) The Compost Power Network is a not-for-profit educational networking organization dedicated to expanding the use of regenerative soil-building energy systems based on woody biomass and who have a mandate to: Their team includes experts on: forestrypermaculturecompost sciencerenewable energybiogas engineeringlocal economic development Design-Build Notes. Columbines School of Botanical Studies - Iceweasel. Herbal Smoking Mixtures Workshop Herbal Smoking Mixtures Workshop taught by Howie Brounstein of the Columbines School of Botanical Studies and author of Herbal Smoking Mixtures, a groundbreaking Etext released over 10 years ago!
This 5 hour intensive workshop includes reasons why people smoke, herbs to quit smoking, herbs for body and flavor, preparing mixtures, and ceremonial, recreational, and medicinal uses of herbal smokes. We will discuss and sample specific smoking herbs and explore the intricacies of developing your own mixture. Bring a clean pipe or a pack of rolling papers. Saturday July 16, 2011 11 AM to 5 PM At Dicentra Farm, outside of Corvallis, Oregon Camping available in natural setting $75 includes free smoking samples $50 deposit required Deposit required to reserve you spot Contact 541-687-7114 for more information or to make a reservation Click here for lecture posters and additional information Herbal Smoking Mixtures by Howie Brounstein Introduction Why Smoke?
Permaculture movement - Iceweasel. My Mulcher - Iceweasel. Date Of Project: Summer 1996 I built this mulcher a few years ago after we got a compost. I found out that the compost was filling up quite fast and wasn't decomposing as fast as it should. Someone said that it would compost faster if all the leaves and stuff were mulched. I had no desire to spend $400-$800 on a commercial mulcher, so I built this. The whole thing cost about $30. The mulcher can be thought of as an oddly shaped lawnmower. Instead of pushing it over grass and leaves, the things to be mulched are put down an aluminium air duct.
One big feature of this mulcher is that is will mulch almost everything. This mulcher is much better then commercial models in that it is very simple. Frequently Asked Questions Please read the following FAQ before emailing me about this project. Are plans for the mulcher available? No, sorry. Do you sell these? No. Can I make an electric mulcher? Yes! Will this mulcher handle branches and sticks? Back to Projects Page | Mail Me | Search. WORLDS SIMPLEST WATER PUMP!! Make a PULSER PUMP! (with Captions) - YouTube - Iceweasel. The power of community review | urban sprout - Iceweasel. I never get round to reviewing Hollywood movies I see, not that I watch many of them any way. There just doesn't seem to be much point.
Basically all you need to know is the basic plot, who is in it and whether it is worth watching or not. But I love reviewing documentaries, they always provide new information and get one thinking. Last night I watched The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil and it was very interesting. Peak Oil refers to the time when oil will become scarce and expensive and we will have to change the way we live because of that.
When you realise how much of our lifestyle (food, transport, agriculture, etc) relies on oil, you understand the massive changes that will have to take place. It's hard for us to predict how this will happen, but Cuba has already experienced it because of the embargo against it. A reversal of this whole commercial farming system back to people growing their own food and bartering or selling it.