The night before our second Permaculture Design Certificate course starts, Graham Calder of P3 Permaculture will give a free public overview of permaculture. Friday, May 24 at 7 pm at The Blockhouse School He did this last year too, and … 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 →
Between downpours on Sunday, June 10, we made good progress in the gardens behind the school. (1) We did more planting in our “fruit forest”. This “fruit forest” area is designed to take advantage of nature’s tendency to transition from … 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 →
Permaculturalists design for water before anything else. Water is the limiting factor in many landscapes. Even in wet places like Nova Scotia it could be, and often is the limiting factor in late summer. As the climate changes, we can … Continue reading →
We are 14 students in the Permaculture PDC course, and there were others who attended the Intro talk on Friday night who would have jumped in if they could. It’s a very interesting collection of people, some from the South … Continue reading →
“Permaculture is a theory of ecological design which seeks to develop sustainable human settlements and agricultural systems, by attempting to model them on natural ecosystems.” – Wikipedia It’s about working with nature rather than against it. About using less effort … Continue reading →
