UPDATE April 2013: We won’t be holding this workshop this year, but may bring the presenter, Bonita Ford, to Nova Scotia in the future. Your responses to the survey may still be useful, so you’re welcome to do the survey … Continue reading →
[singlepic id=269 w=300 h=225 float=right]May 25 – June 9, 2013: Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) residential intensive. The Permaculture Design Certificate course is an internationally-recognized, seventy-two hour course resulting in a Permaculture Design Certificate. It provides an introduction to permaculture design as … Continue reading →
Straw-bale builder, David Cameron and Keith Dietrich, a natural builder specializing in earth-plasters, will be on hand to instruct and facilitate. Some of the work we will be undertaking will be of an experimental R&D nature, drawing on years of … Continue reading →
Learn how to harvest fresh greens all year long, enhance your diet & preserve the harvest goodness for your winter crock-pot! Join Georgia Barnwell & Helga Gruner at The Blockhouse School on Saturday, September 22, 2012, 10 am to 4:30 … Continue reading →
Turning Leaf Centre (TLC) is organizing a two-day Earthships 101 workshop for July 14-15. An Earthship is a passive solar house made of natural and recycled materials. More info coming soon on their soon-to-be-revamped website. Meanwhile, email email hidden; JavaScript is required. SSSVC … Continue reading →
[slideshow id=10] Here it is! Our Permaculture Design for the Blockhouse School property. The final assignment in the PDC course was to come up with a plan for the property that would take into consideration the elements that had been … Continue reading →
Food being integral to permaculture, during the PDC our kitchen was like another classroom where students and volunteers experienced working with and eating food that was sourced as locally as possible, and shared recipes and ideas. Many volunteers from the … Continue reading →
Food for the Permaculture Design Certification Course in May 2012 was sourced as much as possible from local suppliers. The acquiring of much of the fresh food was a way for some members as well as other local growers and … Continue reading →
The previous day’s discussion of ponds in the landscape segued easily into looking at what can be grown in them. Many of us got rather inspired by the idea of raising multiple species of fish and plants in a pond. … Continue reading →
Permaculture is labour-intensive in the beginning, but saves work in later years. By moving the earth around a bit according to a well-designed plan, we can control the elements somewhat – water, wind, sun, frost – so that they make … Continue reading →
