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In this design we will be planting linear-food forests all along the downhill side of each of three hugelkultured swales. What is a hugelkultured swale?
While the tress and shrubs are in the early stages of growing (small) we will use the open space to grow some of our annual vegetables. We will also plant some nitrogen fixing ground covers and dynamic accumulators to help build the soil.
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This video came out a a couple of years ago and we think Vidya (now Swami Omkara) really speaks to why we’ve been working to organize courses with the Sivananda Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA. The registration for our course at the Yoga Farm this year is officially closed, but we’re holding a 6-Day Hands-On Permaculture Intensive immediately following it. The Hands-On training is a great way to not only get a deep introduction to permaculture, but also to anchor your Permaculture Design Course training. |
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This Labor Day weekend the Chicagoland Permaculture Meetup traveled to Woodstock, IL to build a rocket stove. Here’s a time lapse video I made of what went on the first day. In case you it went by too fast for you in the video or you, I’ve pulled out some of the pictures from the video and posted them below. |
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Check out this time lapse video we made of the construction of a hugelkultur bed… Hugelkultur is a raised bed filled with wood. As the wood decomposes it slowly releases nutrients to the plants in the bed. It also acts like a sponge, holding more water for the plants to access in between rains. We built this bed in Bill & Becky Wilson’s yard as a part of our Hands-On Permaculture Training this past August. |
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An Inspiring Video I came across this short video of the the UM permaculture group transforming a grassy area adjacent to their dining hall into a permaculture garden. The goal is to increase the amount of fresh food available on campus. They are not the only university where permaculture is gaining a foothold. As you probably know, we have done trainings at Purdue, Edgewood College and the U.of Wis.and there are many other campuses beginning to see the brilliant of a permaculture approach to landscape design and quite frankly, daily living. Consider Joining us for a PDC in Madison, WI |
Frank Fekonia – Queensland, Australia
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A Great Video Short Goodbye to a real Permaculture Innovator There are many creative permaculture folk in the world (thank goodness) but few had the spunk and vibrato that Frank had. He passed away last month but some of his creativity lives on in the spontaneous YouTube videos that we continue to use in our Permaculture Design Certification Courses. They demonstrate clearly what ‘thinking outside of the box’ truly looks like. A million “Thank-Yous” Frank for your generous and creative gifts. Video of Frank and His Refrigerator Grow Beds Loof for Frank’s other two videos on YouTube once you view this one. |
| Just a quick ‘heads-up’ on a great book that permaculture pioneer Sepp Holzer has just released.
Sepp has been creating a permaculture paradise in the mountains of Austria for 40 years. In this book, he shares many of the techniques he developed in order to grow bountiful crops on the sides of mountains. Many of the ideas apply to us flat-landers as well. |
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 “How to make a Worm Tower” Blog Article from the Good Folks at Milkwood Permaculture – Australia |
A Video Short Easiest Way to Recycle Kitchen Scraps and Feed your Garden – Worm Towers…!!! It’s as simple as digging a hole, sliding in a pipe or long narrow bucket with holes in the sides on bottom half of it, and burying it 2/3 of the way down into the bed. Then every day or two, you take off the top (which is there to keep the flies out) and dump fresh kitchen scraps in. The worms will digest the scraps and carry the fertility in their casting out into your garden bed. Scraps + Worms + Moisture = World Best Fertilizer…!!! Becky and I have plans to make several of these this year. I think it is a brilliant idea and will keep you posted on how it works for us. Click Here for the 2-min. YouTube Video |
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I Loved this Documentary – I Recommend the Trailer
Even if you only watch the first minute of this trailer, it is worth it. With logging and over-grazing on the hillsides on the Loess Plateau in China, the land had become devoid of all vegetation. This was of little concern to the large urban population centers until the flooding began. With no vegetation at the head of the great watersheds of the Yellow River, the rain waters washed down the river valleys in torrents carrying topsoil and flooding the cities. Take a look at what the application of basic permaculture principles were able to accomplish over a 10 year period. – such principles as ‘hold water on the landscape where it lands’ and ‘use plants to hold water, build soil and sustain life.’ AMAZING FOOTAGE. Click here to watch the trailer. |
 Part 6 – Two Trillion Barrels of Oil? |
Free 18-Part ‘YouTube’ Video Series All 18 parts of our newly created series are uploaded now. I recommend that you start with the overview or the ‘trailer’ as we call if you just want an idea of what is in the series. This is the foundational information we give every student who takes a training with us. |
