The Beauty of an Ugly Prototype

Nov 21, 2013 | Learning

At Island Vibes, I met Fred who had recently taken a permaculture design course at a newly developed piece of land. Fred spoke of a gasifier machine he learned about at the course which sounded remarkable. They launched a community project to build one – a wood...

Permaculture Design Course Day 10 : Strategies for an Alternative Global Nation

Oct 15, 2013 | Learning, Musings

The final day of our course. We spent much of the day working diligently on our group permaculture design projects. Our design felt very intuitive and it really emerged from the nature of the landscape. We focused on getting the mainframe design of all the components...

Permaculture Design Course Day 9 : Aquaculture

Oct 14, 2013 | Learning, Musings

We started the morning with a visit to our proposed sites for the design project portion of the permaculture course. Instead of there being a fictitious scenario, we are designing a number of different sites around Zaytuna Farm that tie into the future vision of the...

Permaculture Design Course Day 8 : Climate Types

Oct 10, 2013 | Learning, Musings

We’re in the home stretch now and transitioning into the practical permaculture project. There’s been so much knowledge shared during the last eight days and even more things that warrant further research after the course. Each of the topics covered in the course...

Permaculture Design Course: Day 6 Water & Earthworks

Oct 9, 2013 | Learning, Musings

Water is the elixir of life. I’ve always felt a very natural draw to water, despite being scared of putting my head below the surface and my inability to hit a stroke. There’s something very ominous about the power of bodies of water. One time I took a 200km canoe...