In this video Nicholas Burtner explains when the best possible time to install and implement earthworks such as keyline plowing,
To drill or not to drill?… Most agricultural land is irrigated by water either on site or from municipalities. That water is usually drawn up from wells that are drilled down to aquifers below 2100 ft. Aquifers that are pumped up from below 2100 ft are not a renewable resource and there is no future that […]
After a 12 day Permaculture Design Course (and sometimes before) students are usually keen to dive deeper with their knowledge and perhaps gain some on the ground experience in a Permaculture Earthworks Course. These types of course are specialist permaculture courses and pave the way for learning the finer details in earthworks such as: detailed area of catchment, […]
On October 17-19th amazing ground breaking (pun intended) work was done. In collaboration with non-profit Divinekinship, we set up the first of earthworks to establish a food forest garden to eradicate food deserts in south Dallas, TX for the homeless, needy, and under privileged. We had a blast both in the classroom and on site. Enjoy the photos below. […]
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Nicholas Burtner discusses an ancient Native American house design called kiva, and how we can put a permaculture lens on it to fit into an eco-architectural landscape. * not mentioned in the video is that the original roofs were often flat as well as tee-peed The “plumb a house tip” mentioned in the video can […]
Not all keyhole gardens are round. In the photos below we illustrate how we created a small rectangular overgrown space into a good looking, functional, sheet mulched square keyhole garden. Doing this instead of rows in such a tight space almost doubled the surface area for planting. The form is not only visually pleasing, but the keyhole allows for easy […]
In this video I go over the reason why to create a keyhole and mandala garden, their functions, basic construction, and a strategy for planting. The link to the sheet mulching video mentioned in this video is here. ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. Make sure to […]
Zone 4 is a fascinating zone that can often have the likely hood to be under designed. Being that it is much further away from the living quarters gives it a tendency to not get as much human attention as the preceding zones. One of many types of forests that can be established in zone 4 […]
Here I explain a first flush system that is set up in the backyard of our urban site in Plano, TX. Make sure to view our current Course Schedule and to check out the newly redesigned Permaculture Design Course that allows you to start when you can, come when you can, and pay when you […]