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Kelcey Carlberg has this to say about the School of Permaculture

By nicholas
March 24, 2016
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Current Permaculture Design Course student Kelcey Carlberg has this to say about her experience with the six month version of the permaculture design course at the School of Permaculture. ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. Please share if you found something useful. What next? (click below) Take a Course Hire a Consultant Hire a […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Beautifying Urban Spaces With Reclaimed Materials – Urbanite On Steroids

By nicholas
March 22, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner visits Elijah Santoyo in a suburb or Los Angeles and gets rocked by some amazing implementation of urban design. You will definitely want to know how to get that natural patina stone look using urbanite, which we affectionately dub “Urbanite on Steroids”. Elijah explains it in this video. Learn more at www.earthflow.com —- […]

Clint Chamberlain has this to say about the School of Permaculture

By nicholas
March 16, 2016
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Permaculture Design Course Graduate Clint Chamberlain had this to say about his experience with the six month version of the permaculture design course at the School of Permaculture. ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. Please share if you found something useful. What next? (click below) Take a Course Hire a Consultant Hire a Speaker […]

Nicholas Burtner shares some of his story and gives an intro to permaculture to the Plano Senior High School

By nicholas
March 8, 2016
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Mr. Yoder, the Plano Senior High School’s environmental science teacher. came to one of Nicholas’s intro to permaculture and later a permablitz and it seems that he has obviously caught the permaculture bug. We were honored to be asked by him to come in a lecture for two days on what is permaculture. Mr. Yoder […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Vegetable Washing, Worm Farm, & Probiotic Station

By nicholas
March 3, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner is in Victoria, British Columbia with Ann and Gord Baird of Eco-Sense and Ann shows us her multi-functional vegetable washing / worm farm / probiotic station. It is a must have permaculture element that is very useful in the garden or on the farm and is extremely cool! www.eco-sense.ca ~We greatly appreciate your […]

World Changer Interview Series – Nicholas Burtner Interviews Andrew Millison

By nicholas
February 25, 2016
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Seasoned permaculture educator, designer, and consultant, Andrew Millison sits down to an informative and exciting interview with Nicholas Burtner where he answers many questions on how he got to where he is today, plus great information about consulting, staging, and opportunities for permaculture entrepreneurs. Enjoy! *Our awesome omni directional mic is awesome but we apologize […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – We Teach & Preach People Care But We Don't Do It…

By nicholas
February 17, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner keeps it real and gives us a small lesson on how to obtain more mental and emotional training that (like gardening) should be taught to everyone in grade school. This training believe or not is fundamental to the ethic of people care which we teach and preach on in permaculture but hardly ever […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – The 12 Orders of Soil Taxonomy

By nicholas
February 15, 2016
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If you are unaware of Soil Taxonomy I first recommend you read a quick tip I wrote on soil horizons here, then come back and finish this tip/article. Soil horizons are in depth information, but a fair warning here, soil taxonomy goes much deeper. If you are serious about your soil and especially how and why it […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How Many Bananas Can Fit in a Banana Circle?

By nicholas
February 4, 2016
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Sorry about the low volume, external mic was being stubborn that day. Nicholas Burtner is at Haiti Communitere in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and stumbles upon this banana circle / banana clump with an obscene about of bananas for such a small space. Make sure to check out our other video explaining in detail what a banana […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Why This Doctor Quit His Practice and Chose Permaculture

By nicholas
January 28, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner chats a bit with Dr. Ryan Crafts about why he chose to quit his very well paying medical job as a doctor to pursue a more holistic approach to life and shows us how to truly utilize the ethic of permaculture called people care. Make sure to check out the free clinic where […]