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World Changer Interview Series – Nicholas Burtner Interview Joel Salatin

By nicholas
June 1, 2016
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If you are into Joel Salatin and especially if you are into history, you will not want to miss this interview. Nicholas Burtner sits down with Joel as he graciously pours out history of some of the origins of the ideas on pasture poultry, electric fencing, irrigation for farms, and more that him and his […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Dehydrating Food with Hot Water

By nicholas
May 24, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner is in Victoria, British Columbia at the Ann and Gord Baird homestead, where it is truly awesome, and Gord shows off a very unique designed feature for dehydrating food using the “wasted” heat from the solar hot water heater. #Awesome Find out more and contact Gord at http://www.eco-sense.ca ~We greatly appreciate your shares […]

The Casa Guatemala Permaculture Project: Phase One

By nicholas
May 24, 2016
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It had been several months of being in touch with Heather, the director of Casa Guatemala, before my wife Emma and I finally visited the once orphanage turned school, a sort of haven for children from impoverished families in which parents can’t afford to support them. Otherwise, daytime students commute from surrounding villages to take […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Close Proximity Duck System

By nicholas
May 12, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner visits Jack Spirko, owner of The Survival Podcast, at his Nine Mile Farm where just a few years ago was a rocky barren dried up landscape. Jack integrated a paddock shifting system and in just a short amount of time – everything has greened up. It is simple and anyone can do it. […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Permaculture Suburban Planning

By nicholas
May 6, 2016
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Get inspired with some footage of Davis California’s Village Homes. Nicholas Burtner visits and see how these strategies and techniques combined with appropriate technology over the last 50 years can make amazing future suburban sites! ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. Please share if you found something useful. What next? (click below) Take a […]

School of Permaculture Student Testimonials

By nicholas
May 6, 2016
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School of Permaculture students share a little of their experience with the permaculture design course taught at 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 Aid & Orphanage Donate Catch up with us […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Greenhouse/Biogas Digester/Root Cellar/Living Roof

By nicholas
April 25, 2016
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Check out this multi-functional building that Sandy McPherson and Alan Philip put together. This building, made from the clay excavated from a water storage project on the same site, is a solar greenhouse with a thick wall between the sun side and shade side to provide a cold storage root cellar. Along with the solar […]

World Changer Interview – Nicholas Burtner Interview Iginia Boccalandro

By nicholas
April 18, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner has the privilege to sit down with the founder of the Carbon Economy Series, Iginia Boccalandro, and talks about how she got to where she is today and some amazing stories that have happened in her past. Enjoy. ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. Please share if you found something useful. What […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Mediterranean Tree Guilds That Work!

By nicholas
April 6, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner is again with the awesome Loren Luyendyk at a Mediterranean food forest he helped established roughly 7 years ago. Take a yander at the very established lists of trees, a short history, and some tips for each one in that is in this set up. Really awesome stuff! ~We greatly appreciate your shares […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Plant Hormones

By nicholas
March 30, 2016
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When I teach trees and their energy transactions during our permaculture design course here at the School of Permaculture. I make note to the students that there is a lot of well documented and studied information about the botany and science of trees and of plants and how to identify the parts of them. However, […]