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Clint Chamberlain has this to say about the School of Permaculture

By nicholas
March 16, 2016
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Permaculture Design Course Graduate Clint Chamberlain had this to say about his experience with the six month version of the permaculture design course at the 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 […]

Highlights of our Haiti PDC 2015

By nicholas
October 26, 2015
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Trees and their energy transactions taught under the shade of a mango What an honor it was for us to get to deposit a swath of permaculture into the island La Gonave, Haiti. More specifically into the village of La Palma on the island of La Gonave, Haiti. As I sit here and write this […]

What Does School of Permaculture Do?

By nicholas
August 10, 2015
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We get asked this all the time, what does School of Permaculture do? We are glad you asked… School of Permaculture, a 501c3 non profit organization, has 4 main components: 1. We are an education facility that teaches permaculture both on-site and here on this website. Make sure to scroll through the many pages of permaculture […]

Take a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) in Haiti

By nicholas
August 5, 2015
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PDC – October 8 – 20, 2015 – La Gonave, Haiti School of Permaculture is inviting serious permaculture enthusiasts to come with us to Haiti. Take a PDC in a dry land climate, a climate that is located in the tropics, but suffers lack of water storage and severe deforestation. Not only will that be the […]

Permaculture Tip of the day – How to Talk About Permaculture

By nicholas
April 24, 2015
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How do you talk to people about permaculture? Very carefully. Just joking. Honestly though, talking with people about permaculture sometimes can be down right difficult to do. You just got immersed into a life changing paradigm shift and are super enthusiastic and then someone asks about it or what it is, you almost draw a […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How to Choose a Permaculture Educator

By nicholas
March 26, 2015
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Seriously, I recommend to all passionate and serious students of permaculture and regenerative sustainability to take, at minimum, two different permaculture design courses edified by two completely different educators at least 6 months to a year apart. There is just too much information to write down and remember in one course and the second course will mentally […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – What Are Type One Errors?

By nicholas
February 17, 2015
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(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 system if installed incorrectly. There are very few TYPE ONE ERRORS in permaculture design – […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Earthen Plaster

By nicholas
November 12, 2014
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Nicholas Burtner and Charlie Rendall of Return to the Forest Natural Building School – http://returntotheforest.org – show

Permaculture Tip of the Day – When to Install Earthworks

By nicholas
October 23, 2014
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In this video Nicholas Burtner explains when the best possible time to install and implement earthworks such as keyline plowing,

Review of Our Latest Earthworks Course

By nicholas
October 20, 2014
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On October 17-19th amazing ground breaking (pun intended) work was done. In collaboration with non-profit Divinekinship, we set up the first of earthworks to establish a food forest garden to eradicate food deserts in south Dallas, TX for the homeless, needy, and under privileged. We had a blast both in the classroom and on site. Enjoy the photos below. […]

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