Water – School of Permaculture

How to Live off the Land: A Permaculture Guide

By nicholas
August 27, 2019
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Here we’re sharing a cool resource from our colleagues at Wild Abundance. They run a school for permaculture, homesteading, and natural building in the southern Appalachian mountains, near Asheville, NC. Based on nearly 2 decades of experience living with the land and applying permaculture principles to a variety of sites and situations, they created this for […]

Your Rain Barrels aren’t enough – Use This Instead

By nicholas
December 12, 2018
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Rain barrels, great idea – not truly practical. Rain barrels have been the rage lately but are they truly enough for your practical garden needs. The answer is no. Here is an alternative that is extremely versatile, won’t break the bank, and can be found all over the world. Want to learn more about how […]

New Metal Roof…

By nicholas
March 21, 2018
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For the last few years we have been getting very bad hail storms during the spring. We ended up totaling out the roof on our suburban site and replacing it with a metal roof. Super excited. Since we have decided to keep the suburban site as well as the farm site, we upgraded to metal […]

Reuse and Recycle Materials For Starting Seeds

By nicholas
August 16, 2016
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No matter what you call this: mini self watering seed starter, mini self watering wicking bed, mini greenhouse, or toilet paper rolls on steroids – Dig this uber easy and readily available way to make a seedling pot for growing your favorite veggies. Also included as a bonus in this tip is a really ridiculous […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – First Flush System Version 3

By nicholas
July 15, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner has started testing out live video and chose to make the first tip from live video while it was raining in the middle of summer to explain version three of the School of Permaculture Suburban Site. Hope you guys enjoy! ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. Please share if you found something […]

Permaculture Tip of the day – NRCS Dam Construction Definitions

By nicholas
July 13, 2016
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We have our own language in permaculture. I mean the word permaculture was coined by a Tasmanian and an Australian wrote the first permaculture book “Permaculture One”. If you have never been to either Australia or Tasmania, the movies and TV shows are not far off . Words combine into one another, shortened, and tonal […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – High End Code Compliant Composting Toilet

By nicholas
June 13, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner visits Guner Tautrim and the two have a bit of a silliness showing off a real high end code compliant composting toilet for those who wish to still have the look and feel of a flush toilet but with code compliance (where applicable) and responsible use. Find more toilets like these at http://www.sun-mar.com […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Dehydrating Food with Hot Water

By nicholas
May 24, 2016
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Nicholas Burtner is in Victoria, British Columbia at the Ann and Gord Baird homestead, where it is truly awesome, and Gord shows off a very unique designed feature for dehydrating food using the “wasted” heat from the solar hot water heater. #Awesome Find out more and contact Gord at http://www.eco-sense.ca ~We greatly appreciate your shares […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Mediterranean Dry Land Gray Water System & Plant Selection

By nicholas
December 9, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner gets a tour of Orella Ranch with Loren Luyendyk as he discusses the intricacies of planting a gray water banana circle-ish system in the Mediterranean dry lands. You can contact/hire Loren at: www.sborganics.com ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? (click below) Take a […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Replenishing an Aquifer with Swales – A Case Study

By nicholas
November 26, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner is at Casitas Valley Farm getting the scoop from Warren Brush on how a 9 month old swale has had unbelievable aquifer filling ability for a well on the property, even in the midst of a drought! ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? […]

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