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Your Rain Barrels aren’t enough – Use This Instead

By nicholas
December 12, 2018
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Rain barrels, great idea – not truly practical. Rain barrels have been the rage lately but are they truly enough for your practical garden needs. The answer is no. Here is an alternative that is extremely versatile, won’t break the bank, and can be found all over the world. Want to learn more about how […]

Introduction to Mandala Gardens

By nicholas
November 29, 2018
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Want a mandala garden but want some inside scoop from someone who has used one and designed and installed a few? Watch this video and glean some beneficial usings and tips at our School of Permaculture’s suburban demonstration site. As always, ask questions if you got them.

Texas Permaculture Design Course

By nicholas
November 21, 2018
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Permaculture courses happen in Texas frequently. Here at the School of Permaculture, we hold a minimum of two permaculture design courses per year in Plano, Texas. Plano is in North Texas and a suburb just north of Dallas. Our two permaculture design courses start at different times of the year, one that starts in January […]

THINGS CHANGE & Three and a Half Tips for Your Food Forest

By nicholas
November 5, 2018
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Learn some digestible bits about trees and weather and get a few tips on how to build your food forest.

How to cover and protect hardback books without a dust jacket

By nicholas
September 6, 2018
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Your library is important! FINALLY a decent use for plastic. Honestly it was difficult finding a video out there on the interwebs that was not extremely difficult to figure out or had some interesting complicated fold around the corners. Took me a while, but I figured out a way which is much simpler that anyone […]

Did a Permaculture Design Course – WHAT NEXT!?

By nicholas
July 3, 2018
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This question, and mostly in a derogatory sense, has been asked for decades. Maybe the question should be, are you applying yourself? But maybe not. There are 5 things you can do after a permaculture design course. In this video I let you know what they are…

Are Permaculture Courses Scams?

By nicholas
June 30, 2018
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Permaculture is one of the only disciplines that get ridiculous criticisms of courses being like multi level marketing or scams. I mean do you go to learn ballet and ask the same? Do you go to university and ask the same thing? Which with the debt load it gives it could be a scam… What […]

Tour suburban permaculture site two months into spring…

By nicholas
June 1, 2018
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The video and post prior to this one shows what our suburban permaculture demonstration site looked like the day before spring. This video takes the same tour of our suburban site that we did the day before spring but about two months later. Take a look at the explosive growth in just two months. Spring […]

The day before spring. What did our site look like?

By nicholas
May 30, 2018
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What does a site coming fresh out of winter look like? Better yet what does OUR permaculture site fresh out of winter the day before spring look like? Have a yander at one of our suburban demonstration sites. Follow me on this tour as I show and inspire you on what is possible. Whoodang!!!

Nutrients from Plants for Composting

By nicholas
April 13, 2018
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Nutrients from Plants for Composting Add minerals to your soil by adding these plants to your compost pile Name Binomial Nomenclature Na I Fl B Si S N Mg Ca K P Mn Fe Cu Co Alfalfa Medicago sativa x x Arrowroot x Bladder wrack x x x Borage Borago officinalis x x Bracken, […]