Food Forestry – Page 3 – School of Permaculture

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Mediterranean Dry Land Gray Water System & Plant Selection

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December 9, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner gets a tour of Orella Ranch with Loren Luyendyk as he discusses the intricacies of planting a gray water banana circle-ish system in the Mediterranean dry lands. You can contact/hire Loren at: www.sborganics.com ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? (click below) Take a […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Replenishing an Aquifer with Swales – A Case Study

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November 26, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner is at Casitas Valley Farm getting the scoop from Warren Brush on how a 9 month old swale has had unbelievable aquifer filling ability for a well on the property, even in the midst of a drought! ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Gravity Fed “Dark” Gray Water System

By nicholas
November 9, 2015
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Gray water is typically any waste water that is used other than the toilet and kitchen sink water. Dark gray water is the same but inclusive with the water that drains from kitchen sink. Nicholas Burtner is in Victoria, BC, Canada with the amazing Ann and Gord Baird on their off grid established homestead showing […]

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 […]

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 – Self Wicking Seed Starter

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May 21, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner explains what is seed starter and talks us through how to put together a larger version which is good for all types of permaculture site applications, and especially for the suburban and urban environments. ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? (click below) Take […]

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 – Bare Soil VS Covered Soil

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April 16, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner shows uncovered (bare) soil and a covered soil right at the beginning of spring to show the “weedy”

How to Find Cardboard for Sheet Mulched Garden Beds

By nicholas
March 31, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner shows us a few specific places in the urban and suburban environments where we can find larger quantities

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