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Permaculture Q&A Series – Charging Clients

By nicholas
June 11, 2015
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Recently I received an inquiry about the article I wrote titled: What Should I Charge as a Permaculture Design Consultant? and found our dialog to be potentially very useful to permaculturist in general and decided to share our commentary here. NEW PERMIE: Hi NicholasI’ve just completed my PDC through Geoff Lawton, and am currently working on […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Swale Crossing Suburban Size

By nicholas
June 4, 2015
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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 crossing pathway. #TortillaCheeseTortilla ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, […]

World Changer Interview Series – Nicholas Burtner Interviews Brad Lancaster

By nicholas
May 28, 2015
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Well known and respected author and pioneer in dry land water harvesting strategies, Brad Lancaster, sits down to an upbeat and revealing interview with Nicholas Burtner where he opens up about his life, permaculture, experience, and of course dry land strategies. Enjoy! What next? (click below) Take a Course Hire a Consultant Hire a Speaker […]

Permaculture Tip of the day – Hydrating a Suburban Food Forest With Swales

By nicholas
April 30, 2015
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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 prior) to now hold water in basins even with just a few light rains. ~We […]

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 – […]

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 – Growing a Forest From a Forest

By nicholas
November 29, 2014
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Nicholas Burtner is in a small patch of whats left of an old growth forest in the Pacific Northwest of

Permaculture Tip of the Day – When Earthworks Go Wrong

By nicholas
November 25, 2014
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There are only a few type 1 errors in permaculture and getting earthworks wrong is one of them. Nicholas Burtner is on a permaculture consultation in north Texas and shows us an incorrectly built pond that has no water capture and some options to what we can do from there. ~We greatly appreciate your shares […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Terrace Gardens

By nicholas
November 5, 2014
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Nicholas Burtner shows a zone 1 series of terrace gardens and how strategic methods for moving nutrient and harvesting can

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Turkey Nest Pond

By nicholas
October 29, 2014
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Nicholas Burtner displays an example of an established turkey nest pond that has been installed at The Yoga Forest which

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