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Connect Africa Hub – A Permaculture Design

Illustration of the Final Design

Midwest Permaculture Aug.2012 PDC Course (small pic)

Permaculture Design Course Graduates – Summer 2011 – Stelle, IL

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 the work of the Connect Africa hub.

We were all moved by the work of this organization and by Grant’s, and his wife Paige’s, devotion to assist in the work there. Grant was actually taking this training in order to come up with a design for this organization and a 20-acre site they want to develop.

As such, we made the decision to assist him by making it one of the final design projects for the PDC Course. 4 other students self-selected themselves to work on this design with Grant.

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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 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.

Raised Bed

Here is the picture of the raised bed we made last month with that old book rack from the neighbors trash, and here it is a month later. There is nothing like warm weather and rain.

May 2010

June 2010