Check out the video below. I got tired of people wanting to do something better with their landscape and not being able to because they did not know where to being or how to source what they needed. So …
A quick update of some work we installed at an apartment complex that specifically asked for a permaculture design. More updates to come.
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 …
In our efforts to empower large-scale land restoration and effect cultural transformation to a society of earth repair and stewardship, we must educate, inspire, and engage. To accomplish this, we must form a connection between ourselves and our audiences. We …
Nicholas Burtner lays out a plan of change and transition that a GMO farmer or rancher can take to gain
(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 …
Permaculture is a peculiar system where the more you know, it becomes apparent, the more you don’t know. I have started to get the hang of it. What does that tell ya? Ha! Permaculture is amazing! It covers complexities of creating perpetual living …
A year or so ago I consulted on a beautiful property (The Earthstead Farm) with Sam Dodson and Rebecca Visconti who are passionate about system change and moving towards a sustainable and regenerative future in homesteading. Listening back to this …
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 …
Water is an exceptionally important design feature when designing permaculture sites. Where it comes from? how to store it? how to distribute it? and how will it exit a property? are just a few questions that arise in the design stage. …
In permaculture we look to nature as a teacher to show us how to biomimic it’s design to create life rich systems. There is a hierarchy of soil creation in nature. The richest regions of life on earth can be …
In permaculture we have a principle that states: The problem is the solution. I could write the next week’s worth of tips just on that topic alone. However today’s tip will use this principle with pest management, specifically to invertebrates such as termites, grasshoppers, …