Rainwater Harvesting – Bending Oak Project in Ohio
Hey permies! In this blog post, we’re going to get the skinny on rainwater harvesting… Bill asked if I could share with you all the
Residential Design for Midwest Permaculture Home
Below is the full design map of our Midwest Permaculture Home. Click on the picture to enlarge and zoom in on any details that interest
Permaculture Earthworks Explained – The Clay Model
As permaculture teachers, we have landed on this simple clay-model demonstration as an excellent tool for explaining earthworks. We can cover how swales, ponds, key points
Rapidly-Cut Swales with Tractor Blade
3 Miles of Swales Cut in 5-Hours We are making early progress on our 320-acre Missouri permaculture-farm project (Jordan Rubin’s Heal the Planet Farm). Last
Bulldozer Digging Swales
The Design We have been invited by a family in Southern Missouri to assist with the design of a 320-acre farm. They want to transition
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
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
Applying Local Resources to Capture Greywater
The harvesting of greywater is an important technique that we often use in permaculture designs. Not only does it utilize what is considered a ‘waste
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
Water Wheel Pump
This is just too cool…! How many people live near a running creek, but the creek sits low enough on their property that there is no good
Graduates in the News
It’s always exciting when we hear about the mainstream media picking up on permaculture and even more so when they’re talking about graduates of Midwest
Wind & Sun Farm – A Permaculture Design (Part 2)
Part 2 of 2 Click Here for Part 1 Pictured: Initial drawing of a keylined hillside with swales and linear food forest overlaid. Current Conditions The