Architecture – School of Permaculture

Success from Climate, Techniques or Land Management?

By nicholas
January 10, 2021
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For Centuries Western Europe has taken care of it’s farmland better than most places in the world. One of the main reasons for it’s success is it’s climate with it’s gentle rainfall and long growing seasons. Plus much of the farmland being not too hilly. Shrub hedges and/or stone walls such as Cornish hedges were […]

Students take Permaculture Design Course…

By nicholas
January 7, 2021
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We love hearing testimonies and getting updates from our students. From those who plant their first gardens to those who completely rock the homesteading. And this couple did just that. In 2016 they took our in-person PDC course and used their property (10 acres), which they purchased a few years prior, to design their final […]

We got a FREE house!?

By nicholas
March 28, 2018
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Can you believe it? We finally got a download from God on how to move out to the farm, with our families new 1 year old edition. Praise Jesus! And man do we have awesome neighbors or what? So my question is – what would you do if you needed temporary housing?

New Metal Roof…

By nicholas
March 21, 2018
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For the last few years we have been getting very bad hail storms during the spring. We ended up totaling out the roof on our suburban site and replacing it with a metal roof. Super excited. Since we have decided to keep the suburban site as well as the farm site, we upgraded to metal […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – First Flush System Version 3

By nicholas
July 15, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner has started testing out live video and chose to make the first tip from live video while it was raining in the middle of summer to explain version three of the School of Permaculture Suburban Site. Hope you guys enjoy! ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. Please share if you found something […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – High End Code Compliant Composting Toilet

By nicholas
June 13, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner visits Guner Tautrim and the two have a bit of a silliness showing off a real high end code compliant composting toilet for those who wish to still have the look and feel of a flush toilet but with code compliance (where applicable) and responsible use. Find more toilets like these at http://www.sun-mar.com […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Beautifying Urban Spaces With Reclaimed Materials – Urbanite On Steroids

By nicholas
March 22, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner visits Elijah Santoyo in a suburb or Los Angeles and gets rocked by some amazing implementation of urban design. You will definitely want to know how to get that natural patina stone look using urbanite, which we affectionately dub “Urbanite on Steroids”. Elijah explains it in this video. Learn more at www.earthflow.com —- […]

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