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Permaculture Tip of the Day – When to Clean a First Flush System

By nicholas
April 21, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner explains why and when to flush your first flush system on your water harvesting tank. ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? (click below) Take a Course Hire a Consultant Hire a Speaker Aid & Orphanage Donate Mailing List

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How to Build a Grey Water Planter Bed

By nicholas
March 13, 2015
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Get ready to start using your shower and sink water. Nicholas Burtner explains in detail how to build a grey water bed for home use. ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? (click below) Take a Course Hire a Consultant Hire a Speaker Aid & Orphanage […]

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 – Suburban Chicken System

By nicholas
January 6, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner visits Andrew Millison’s homestead in Corvallis, OR, USA and encounters a very well thought out and space maximizing

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Street / Foodscapes & Communitecture

By nicholas
January 2, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner visits Communitecture, a permaculture and community based architectural firm, in Portland, Oregon and speaks with Tammy Straw-Dunn about

Permaculture Tip of the Day – A Permaculture Shower

By nicholas
October 31, 2014
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Nicholas Burtner does over and explains the main components of a permaculture shower including water heating, water pressure, local construction,

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Square Keyhole Garden

By nicholas
October 13, 2014
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Not all keyhole gardens are round. In the photos below we illustrate how we created a small rectangular overgrown space into a good looking, functional, sheet mulched square keyhole garden. Doing this instead of rows in such a tight space almost doubled the surface area for planting. The form is not only visually pleasing, but the keyhole allows for easy […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – First Flush System Video

By nicholas
October 2, 2014
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Here I explain a first flush system that is set up in the backyard of our urban site in Plano, TX. Make sure to view our current Course Schedule and to check out the newly redesigned Permaculture Design Course that allows you to start when you can, come when you can, and pay when you […]

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 […]

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