Dryland Climate – Page 2 – School of Permaculture

School of Permaculture’s Design Services

By nicholas
February 4, 2015
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Consultation and Design Services ~Make sure to check out our portfolio of permaculture work too! A permaculture project/site starts with a consultation and a blueprint design. Depending on what you have visioned and what the landscape allows we will create a unique site design that compliments both. A strategy for land development will be introduced as […]

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,

Permaculture Tip of the Day – To Drill or Not Drill a Water Well?

By nicholas
October 22, 2014
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To drill or not to drill?… Most agricultural land is irrigated by water either on site or from municipalities. That water is usually drawn up from wells that are drilled down to aquifers below 2100 ft. Aquifers that are pumped up from below 2100 ft are not a renewable resource and there is no future that […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Keyhole Mandala Garden Video

By nicholas
October 11, 2014
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In this video I go over the reason why to create a keyhole and mandala garden, their functions, basic construction, and a strategy for planting. The link to the sheet mulching video mentioned in this video is here. ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. Make sure to […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How to Plan and Develop a Permaculture Site

By nicholas
September 2, 2014
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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 and each stage should build upon the previous (an the electrical system works better and installs […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – The 5 Layers of a Prairie

By nicholas
August 14, 2014
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Depending on where you live the word prairie can be exchanged with rangeland or grassland. The popular, and profound, work of Allan Savory and his Holistic Management has shown how large herding animals graze off of rangelands/prairies, and then are moved by predators, thus giving us a blueprint of how rangeland ecosystems function. This knowledge […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – The 7 Layers of a Forest

By nicholas
August 12, 2014
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(Artwork by Graham Burnett from his book “Permaculture A Beginners Guide” – www.spiralseed.co.uk) Every forest in the world has a minimum of seven layers. (Some tropical and subtropical forests have up to nine layers and depending on how we classify layers, bacteria and fungus can hold additional layers as well). What is amazing is that when the order of life […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Make It Rain!

By nicholas
August 8, 2014
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There are a variety of ways that nature seeds clouds. When we look to deserts and through history of the Native Americans (and many natives of other countries too) community events such as rain dances are often used to make it rain. Known of unbeknownst to them, when having a community full of dancers in […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Sand as Water Catchment

By nicholas
July 28, 2014
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Permaculture has a principle that states: the problem is the solution. When planting trees in areas where soil is almost all sand (especially in arid climates where evaporation exceeds precipitation and the soil is almost all alkaline) we can use the sand as water storage. Two holes are dug in sequence: -First a hole of 5-10 feet (apprx.) is dug and […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Poison for Dry Lands

By nicholas
July 22, 2014
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In permaculture we learn a truly remarkable arsenal of techniques, strategies, and patterning that is at our disposal for permaculture consulting and design. It would probably lift a few eyebrows if I said that if a farmer truly needed a chemical such as fungicide to save a crop which will provide money and food for his […]

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