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 it extremely versatile, won’t break the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Trees and their energy transactions taught under the shade of a mango What an honor it was for us to get to deposit a swath of permaculture into the island La Gonave, Haiti. More specifically into the village of La …
Nicholas Burtner is at, what is believed to be the first apartment complex in the country (USA) that has specifically asked for permaculture and a food forest, woohoo!!!, and shows us a how to put in a suburban size swale …
Well known and respected author and pioneer in dry land water harvesting strategies, Brad Lancaster, sits down to an upbeat and revealing interview with Nicholas Burtner where he opens up about his life, permaculture, experience, and of course dry land …