Nicholas Burtner visits the beautiful small town of San Juan off of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala and visits with Dominga
Nicholas Burtner takes a group of permaculture design course students on a field trip to Atitlan Organics in Tzununa, Lake
When people say “there is no such thing as a weed” or that “there is no such thing as an invasive species” it can come as quite a shock. It is important to have an understanding to what is actually being implied. In garden plots and up and emerging food forests, there are species that can […]
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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The original Permaculture Design Course format was three weeks long. The first two weeks taught the bulk content of the course and the last week was filled with networking (this was even before fax). Since then the course has had many re-formats and in it’s most advertised form is held as a two week intensive […]
Written by Nicholas Burtner, published by Permaculturenews.org My message to Permaculturists: Known or unbeknownst to you — you are an exceptionally valuable and powerful human being. You are armed with the knowledge and information to bring you and the people around you into a place of abundance and harmony. You are powerful, and if you […]
As I listen to more and more talks on permaculture it becomes clear that case studies are a crucial element to reaching the main stream. Even if it is just logging and documenting a garden on your patio. A case study is not overly involved but is involved. It is about logging events that happen […]
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 […]