Nicholas Burtner is at, what is believed to be the first apartment complex in the country (USA) that has specifically asked for permaculture and a food forest, woohoo!!!, and shows us a how to put in a suburban size swale …
Nicholas Burtner is at the School of Permaculture’s suburban site, demonstrating properly designed swales in a back yard food forest. The suburban earthwork features have substantially hydrated the very dry and expanding clay subsoil (which could hardly be quenched years …
(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 …
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Nicholas Burtner does over and explains the main components of a permaculture shower including water heating, water pressure, local construction,
Nicholas Burtner displays an example of an established turkey nest pond that has been installed at The Yoga Forest which
In this video Nicholas Burtner explains when the best possible time to install and implement earthworks such as keyline plowing,
It is imperative when working in/on/with islands that all fresh water sources stay as unpolluted as possible. On coral islands (which are often found less than 30 degrees away from the equator) a fresh water lens, from rain that seeps …
When thinking about the placement of water loving plant species such as water chestnut and blueberries, it is beneficial to home them near the edge of a water feature such as a pond or grey water system. A whole day is usually …
What is often left out in much of permaculture teaching is the “how to install the design”. And not only what that entails, but steps in how to do it. It is most manageable when the design is implemented in stages …
Not widely known is that most prairies and forests start as water retention pools also known as ponds. When a water filled hole in a landscape fills, the “4 layers of life” balance the pond and maintain it for several hundred years (learn …
When studying permaculture at any depth it is easy to be empowered with information such as every forest in the world has seven layers (learn more), or that prairies are layered too (learn more). Since design and order is not exclusive to land systems, we …