Spring Rains Fill Our Earthworks Multiple Times
While the city of Chicago was shutting down due to too much rain last week just 60 miles north of us, the swales, ponds, berms
A Cal-Earth Permaculture Course Picture Summary
Post Update (Oct. 2017) Our 7th Annual Combined Super-Adobe and Permaculture-Design Certificate Courses Oct. 16-28, 2017 Oct. 16-20 Super Adobe Core Curriculum Workshop Oct.21-28 Permaculture Design Certificate Course Sorry –
Pictures from our July 2012 Hands-on Permaculture Course
You can see and read more about this course in an awesome blog post by one of the students in this course: These Light Footsteps
Pictures From our June 2012, Stelle PDC Course
Pictures by Milton Dixon and Bill Wilson – Captions by Bill “Thank you Bill and Becky for such an incredible, life-altering week.”Jody T. – Community
Linear Food Forests along Hugelkultured Swales
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
Connect Africa Hub – A Permaculture Design
Context: Grant Shadden took his PDC Training with us – summer 2011. While here, he shared about his upcoming 2-month trip to Africa to support
6-Day Family Friendly Training
6-day “Hands-on” Training – August 2011Held at Midwest Permaculture in our Sustainably Oriented Community of Stelle, ILWe expect to be offering a ‘family friendly’ training every
Cal-Earth – The PDC Portion of the Combined Earth Building and Permaculture Training
Week 2 – The Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course.(Click here for Photos of Week 1) We not only taught this course to 24 students from around
Hugelkultur Video
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
6-Day Family Friendly Permaculture Training
Greetings from Stelle, IL. We are in the midst of a ‘permaculture training for families’ and took this photo in front of a
Pictures From May 2011 “Hands-on Training” Week
May 2011 Hands-on Training Week At Midwest Permaculture — Stelle, IL For those interested, here are some pictures from our “Hands-on” work week. It turned
Pictures From May 2011 “Hands-on Training” Week
May 2011 Hands-on Training Week At Midwest Permaculture — Stelle, IL For those interested, here are some pictures from our “Hands-on” work week. It turned