Nicholas Burtner is in downtown Portland, Oregon at the Hawthorne Hostel where they have installed a magnificent living roof where
There are only a few type 1 errors in permaculture and getting earthworks wrong is one of them. Nicholas Burtner is on a permaculture consultation in north Texas and shows us an incorrectly built pond that has no water capture and some options to what we can do from there. ~We greatly appreciate your shares […]
Nicholas Burtner shows a zone 1 series of terrace gardens and how strategic methods for moving nutrient and harvesting can
Nicholas Burtner demos a low tech water based refrigeration method for perishable foods and drinks in the tropics. ~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 Donate Volunteer (hourly, daily, permablitzes)
Nicholas Burtner displays an example of an established turkey nest pond that has been installed at The Yoga Forest which
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 […]
After a 12 day Permaculture Design Course (and sometimes before) students are usually keen to dive deeper with their knowledge and perhaps gain some on the ground experience in a Permaculture Earthworks Course. These types of course are specialist permaculture courses and pave the way for learning the finer details in earthworks such as: detailed area of catchment, […]
Nicholas Burtner discusses an ancient Native American house design called kiva, and how we can put a permaculture lens on it to fit into an eco-architectural landscape. * not mentioned in the video is that the original roofs were often flat as well as tee-peed The “plumb a house tip” mentioned in the video can […]
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 […]
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. […]