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OUR NEW FARM, Growing Soil, Itty Bitty Permaculture Garden, The Tomato Tragedy of 2017

By nicholas
July 25, 2017
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WE HAVE FUN! And that’s what’s up. Let me introduce you to our new farm. Along with our already seemingly busy suburban site, school, team, and consultations, we set out on a mission early on to have a suburban scale demonstration site as well as a farm demonstration site. That vision has come to reality. […]

KEYHOLES KNIVES WORM EATING AND THE HOMELESS

By nicholas
July 7, 2017
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Keyhole gardens are vastly underestimated of how distracting they are. Robin Jones brings it, like really. You want working knives? Help the poor. Take a peek inside what it really takes to run, not one, but two demonstration sites, operate a school of permaculture, manage an amazing team of instructors and consultants, while being a […]

Permaculture in an Apartment Complex Two Years Later…

By nicholas
June 17, 2017
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A quick update of some work we installed at an apartment complex that specifically asked for a permaculture design. More updates to come.

Worm Farm For Your Backyard!

By nicholas
June 14, 2017
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Who doesn’t want the best fertilizer on earth for their growing systems? Worm farming aka vermiculture produces a black gold for your garden/farm that is superior to all other fertilizers. And it should be, it is how God made it. Similar to eating whole food vs. processed foods, the nutrients that come out of the […]

Herbal Medicine: Awesome? or Little to No Scientific Evidence?

By nicholas
June 4, 2017
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It just hit me… why there is that disclaimer with plant medicine that says “there is little or no scientific evidence” to support a plant’s herbal medicinal values. The reason for this is because IT IS truly hard to measure the evidence. But get the rest of the story… Most pharmaceuticals are derived from extracting […]

What Kind of Courses Are Offered?

By nicholas
May 25, 2017
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Our Teaching Approach School of Permaculture utilizes a top down teaching approach. Our goal is teach you the big picture first. This way you can gain an understanding of the top level permaculture content first. This allows your mind to be properly prepared and ready for the further acquisition of the skills you need to […]

Kelley Joy Tours our Permaculture Suburban Site

By nicholas
May 23, 2017
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Kelly Joy from Coffee with Kelly Joy (check out her facebook page) came over a few days ago and facebook lived a video tour of the front and back yard food forest gardens here at our suburban site of the School of Permaculture. Because permaculture is so scalable and sometimes thought of for only large […]

Growing Your Own Pesticides…

By nicholas
May 17, 2017
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Ron Finley said, “Growing your own food is like printing your own money”. I could not agree more. And you wouldn’t just set fire to the bank that holds your money would you? That is pretty much what we do when we spracy chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides. In this video I show you […]

Why Work So Hard? Easy Permaculture Method To Grow Beets

By nicholas
May 17, 2017
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Growing your own food is one of the most practical things you can do. And permaculture makes it very easy, once you design and install your design the maintenance becomes an easy part of you life. Who says growing your own food is too much work?!?. Here is a very simple and super effective way […]

Mandala Gardens

By nicholas
May 17, 2017
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Mandala gardens use energy efficient pathways that connect keyhole gardens together. Allowing us single rotating work areas instead of the constant up and down motion that rectangular beds force on you when working the outside perimeter. This version I call the Chi Rho mandala because if you connect the center points with lines, you get the […]