Featured On: http://thepermaculturezone.com – Sepp Holzer’s son Josef walks us through his family farm called the Krameterhof. Fish ponds, productive terraces, fruit trees and grazing animals characterize the lush landscape in one of Europe’s oldest and most well established permaculture farms. http://thepermaculturezone.com
Category: Ponds and Swales
Farm and Homestead Design Protocol
Land Design Farm and Homestead Design and Development, starts with a goal articulation and visioning process. The second phase includes surveying the site, for example the way the water is currently moving … Continue reading Farm and Homestead Design Protocol
Regenerating Land: A Day at Green Acres Farmstead in Sandyhook, Sunshine Coast, BC Canada.
I arrived to Paula asking for a hand planting some apple trees and took the opportunity to build a 5minute A-frame level out of scrap wood, dug some mini swales … Continue reading Regenerating Land: A Day at Green Acres Farmstead in Sandyhook, Sunshine Coast, BC Canada.
Regenerating Land: The future of Agriculture – Demonstrated at Mark Shepard’s Farm in Viola, Wisconsin
On a tropical farm such as Rancho De Cerdo Magico, expect to see Mangos and Bananas instead of Chestnut and Hazelnuts, but you get the idea… source:http://www.permaculturevoices.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/New-Forest-Farm-Drone-Fly-By-crop.jpg To end this post … Continue reading Regenerating Land: The future of Agriculture – Demonstrated at Mark Shepard’s Farm in Viola, Wisconsin
Regenerating Land: Bio-Mimicry in Agriculture!
Here is an ingenious example of biomimicry in agriculture – Fast rotation of livestock, just like ungulates in the wild that would be continuously encircled by predators on their endless … Continue reading Regenerating Land: Bio-Mimicry in Agriculture!
Why not have the roof water storage overflow fill up a pond for extra water during the drought?
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