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Permaculture on Indian soil
My time in India is nearing its end, and with it, my Grand Tour of Sustainable Living Sites, which apparently just keeps getting better and better! Today I’m really excited to share with you my first...
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Permaculture tour in Asheville
Yesterday, we took a day trip to beautiful Asheville, North Carolina, to join Zev Friedman in touring two urban permaculture gardens he has designed. Zev is incredibly knowledgeable about plants, and...
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Permaculture for urban spaces
Today, I have a guest post up on one of my favorite permaculture & nature-inspired living blogs, These Light Footsteps! It’s all about applying permaculture ideas to growing food in limited spaces,...
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Garden design workshop at Paradise Lot
When someone like myself who is a) a permaculture nut b) a berry lover c) a big fan of Eric Toensmeier’s books (especially Perennial Vegetables, and Edible Forest Gardens co-authored with Dave Jacke)...
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Permaculture Design Course in South Carolina!
I’ve alluded to this in a previous post, but I’m beyond excited now to be able to reveal what a couple of local permaculturists and myself have been scheming lately: We are organizing a full, 72-hour...
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Regenerating an orchard
On a late December afternoon, I took this image of the soil beneath my feet, asking myself: How do you regenerate life in soil like this? Compacted, eroded, lifeless, seemingly only good for grass? I...
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Launching the First Columbia SC Permaculture Design Course
And so it was that one sunny Saturday morning in March, after months of planning and preparing, I woke up to the first day of our Permaculture Design Course. The weeks and days leading up to it were...
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Permaculture Course: In the growth zone
The Permaculture Design Course that I am co-organizing and co-teaching is nearing its end — we just completed weekend 5 out of 6, and the students have embarked on their final design projects. It has...
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IPCUK: Designing the World We Want
Last week, Gather and Grow journeyed to London to attend the International Permaculture Conference and Convergence. The conference, in downtown London, was a two-day extravaganza of presentations,...
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ELI 2016
Friends, I’ve been absent for far too long — but certainly not because I didn’t have anything to say. On the contrary. I am enrolled in the school of my dreams, with a curriculum containing all that...
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