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Permaculture Tip of the Day – The Lamiacea ‘Mint’ Family

By nicholas
March 19, 2015
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In permaculture design, the mint family is especially important for many reasons. For one it is extremely hardy, existing generally in all climates, soil and sun conditions. Mints generally can run to cover an area. They are known for there stolons(underground or above ground herbaceous stems that root readily) which allow the plant to spread […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How to Build a Grey Water Planter Bed

By nicholas
March 13, 2015
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Get ready to start using your shower and sink water. Nicholas Burtner explains in detail how to build a grey water bed for home use. ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? (click below) Take a Course Hire a Consultant Hire a Speaker Aid & Orphanage […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – What is Grey and Black Water?

By nicholas
March 12, 2015
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As I write this tip I am holding back the urge to launch into a 50 shades of gray parody. Ha – I’ll leave that to the professionals. When I was at the Earthship Academy, a foreman, on a house build, mentioned it was safe to live “downstream” from an earthship. I’d like to add further that […]

How to Transition from GMO Farming and Ranching to Permaculture

By nicholas
February 25, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner lays out a plan of change and transition that a GMO farmer or rancher can take to gain

Permaculture is Redefining Gardening

By nicholas
February 20, 2015
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"Gardening is not just about putting plants in the ground the same way architecture is not only concerned with plumbing." ~Nicholas Burtner Permaculture gardening is a whole systems replacement to the food system. When we start looking at the garden as the supermarket and pharmacy our viewpoint will start to change. This type of gardening is a cyclical series […]

Permaculture Education Beyond The Garden & Farm

By nicholas
February 19, 2015
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Permaculture Education Beyond The Garden & Farm How schools can be the bridge for Permaculture There are many roads Everyone needs food. Everyone needs shelter. Everyone needs to be sustainable and regenerative in the climates in which they live, but does that mean that everyone has to be a permaculture farmer or a permaculture teacher? […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – What Are Type One Errors?

By nicholas
February 17, 2015
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(A busted and breached pond/dam wall) TYPE ONE ERRORS are classified as errors/mistakes on a site which will either cost you or the client a lot of time, money, or energy to replace, redo, or clear out of a system if installed incorrectly. There are very few TYPE ONE ERRORS in permaculture design – […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Five Considerations for Being a Permaculture Design Consultant

By nicholas
February 13, 2015
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Since permaculture found me, I have dedicated my available earthly time to loving and helping people the best ways I know how. In the tangible world, if there were something better than permaculture to pursue that – I would be doing it! Permaculture design and consultation is meaningful, purposeful, and joyful work. There is a lot […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Permaculture’s Growing Pains

By nicholas
February 9, 2015
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Permaculture is a peculiar system where the more you know, it becomes apparent, the more you don’t know. I have started to get the hang of it. What does that tell ya? Ha! Permaculture is amazing! It covers complexities of creating perpetual living systems that help people and the environment. However, attached to that amazingness, there is tremendous […]

Pros and Cons of Hand Drawings and Computer Graphic Permaculture Designs

By nicholas
February 5, 2015
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Somewhere near the early 2000’s I was co-founder of an architectural rendering firm that specialized in creating 3D renderings for architects using a computer graphic software called 3D Studio Viz. This was a specialized 3D animation software that was geared specifically to the architectural industry and was offered around the time that software giant Autodesk (who […]