Nicholas Burtner is with Michael Thomas in Washington state and finds a 150 year old Douglas Fir which creates a
Nicholas Burtner is in a small patch of whats left of an old growth forest in the Pacific Northwest of
In this video Nicholas Burtner explains when the best possible time to install and implement earthworks such as keyline plowing,
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 […]
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 […]
A year or so ago I consulted on a beautiful property (The Earthstead Farm) with Sam Dodson and Rebecca Visconti who are passionate about system change and moving towards a sustainable and regenerative future in homesteading. Listening back to this podcast goes to show me how we, as permaculturists and humans, never really stop learning. […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]