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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 – People Care Part 1

By nicholas
March 24, 2015
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As I have written in the article “Permaculture’s Archilles’ Heel“, it is the people systems that are the number one reason why most permaculture systems fail. I would suppose the on site financial systems would be number two (a tip on invisible structures for setting up permaculture financial systems coming soon). We do not have much training […]

How to Transition from GMO Farming and Ranching to Permaculture

By nicholas
February 25, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner lays out a plan of change and transition that a GMO farmer or rancher can take to gain

Permaculture Education Beyond The Garden & Farm

By nicholas
February 19, 2015
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Permaculture Education Beyond The Garden & Farm How schools can be the bridge for Permaculture There are many roads Everyone needs food. Everyone needs shelter. Everyone needs to be sustainable and regenerative in the climates in which they live, but does that mean that everyone has to be a permaculture farmer or a permaculture teacher? […]

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 – Five Considerations for Being a Permaculture Design Consultant

By nicholas
February 13, 2015
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Since permaculture found me, I have dedicated my available earthly time to loving and helping people the best ways I know how. In the tangible world, if there were something better than permaculture to pursue that – I would be doing it! Permaculture design and consultation is meaningful, purposeful, and joyful work. There is a lot […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Permaculture’s Growing Pains

By nicholas
February 9, 2015
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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 systems that help people and the environment. However, attached to that amazingness, there is tremendous […]

Pros and Cons of Hand Drawings and Computer Graphic Permaculture Designs

By nicholas
February 5, 2015
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Somewhere near the early 2000’s I was co-founder of an architectural rendering firm that specialized in creating 3D renderings for architects using a computer graphic software called 3D Studio Viz. This was a specialized 3D animation software that was geared specifically to the architectural industry and was offered around the time that software giant Autodesk (who […]

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 […]

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