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Permaculture Tip of the Day – Growing a Forest From a Forest – Part 2

By nicholas
April 13, 2015
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A forest grows on a fallen forest. If you have not watched the original part 1 video of “Growing a Forest From a Forest”, click here. Many permaculturist know the down right practical benefits of Hügelkultur. I have personally modified the technique into raised sheet mulched garden beds which I highly recommend for zone 1 gardens. […]

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 – Plant Families

By nicholas
December 3, 2014
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When designing a landscape and/or planting systems, we are often focused on what plant combinations, or ‘polycultures’, will function together as cohesive units. To understand what plants will function together, it can be overwhelming to look at specific plant species as there are thousands upon thousands! To make things easier, we can scale back and […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Pitchwood and Fire

By nicholas
December 2, 2014
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Nicholas Burtner is with Michael Thomas in Washington state and finds a 150 year old Douglas Fir which creates a

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 – Fuel Forest

By nicholas
October 7, 2014
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Zone 4 is a fascinating zone that can often have the likely hood to be under designed. Being that it is much further away from the living quarters gives it a tendency to not get as much human attention as the preceding zones. One of many types of forests that can be established in zone 4 […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Planning a Food Forest – Part 2

By nicholas
September 17, 2014
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Planning a Food Forest Part 1 found here. Most permaculturist learn very quickly that working with nitrogen fixing legumes and dynamic nutrient accumulators is paramount in planting and grazing systems. We are usually given the major species that work well in most climates and many permaculture courses teach, in great detail, which species grow well […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Ridiculously Fast and Easy Compost Tea

By nicholas
September 10, 2014
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When making soil pro-biotics such as compost tea, it is easy to get bogged down in the “chemistry” of compost tea preparation. Often we learn very precise measurements, time and infiltration for air inoculation, and a host of different ingredients to add. And on a large farm or broad acre site, I will recommend to stick […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How to Plan and Develop a Permaculture Site

By nicholas
September 2, 2014
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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 […]

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