Former truck driver Bill Wilson tells an insightful story about the energy packed in a gallon of gas — which we won't always have in cheap abundance. Now a permaculture educator, he sees permaculture as a viable, realistic way to use nature to provide the abundance we … [Read more...]
High on Permaculture in the Rocky Mountains (156)
November 30, 2009 by 3 Comments
Kris Holstrom's off-grid permaculture farm at 9000 feet high is living proof that food can be grown nearly anywhere. Managing with a very short growing season and water constraints, she and her interns have created magic. Tour the sun-warmed, insulated greenhouse where … [Read more...]
School Garden Brings Learning to Life (126)
September 14, 2008 by 2 Comments
Come along on a tour with team-teachers Glenda Berliner and Jeralyn Wilson, as they show us their elementary school garden bearing many fruits. It's an important part of the curriculum: children make mason bee boxes, grow colonial medicinal plants, learn of other cultures, … [Read more...]
Community Gardens Grow Community
April 19, 2008 by 1 Comment
Patrick Marcus and other motivated citizens sprouted a community garden on city land slated to be a park in Ashland, Oregon. When the garden was threatened by plans to develop the park, they got active. Their research and advocacy led to official policy supporting community … [Read more...]
Suburban Renewal – One Backyard at a Time
December 14, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Jan Spencer shows his quarter-acre permaculture project transforming a typical suburban lot. Lawn and driveway were replaced with fruit and nut trees, vegetables, brambles, and native habitat, plus a 3500 gallon rainwater catchment system, a sunroom heating the house, and a … [Read more...]
MOBY – An Inner City Community Garden Project
November 9, 2006 by Leave a Comment
This Vancouver, B.C., neighborhood is building community while transforming an abandoned lot in a crack neighborhood into a flourishing community garden. Join MOBY-lizer Jason O'Brien and folks of all ages for cob clay-stomping fun accompanied by music in an inner-city urban … [Read more...]
Self-sufficient Small Farms
March 2, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Small acreages can produce a lot! Janet Brisson shows the home-canned and -dried vegetables, fruit, and beans she cultivates along with chickens and bees. Renee Wade talks about practices that suit the land: her drier property is better suited to raising goats. Episode … [Read more...]
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