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Ramblings of a Permaculture Educator and Advocate

Importance of Calcium to Plant, Animal and Human Health

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The Big-3 – Water, Oxygen and Calcium There has been a rampant worsening of the calcium in our foods, at the same time that more medical research and anecdotal reports claim that of calcium is far more important than ever believed. In human bodies, calcium is required by weight and volume more than any other […]

What is “Biochar”?

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Links to resources about biochar: Dr. Mercola article about biochar: “How Biochar Is Triggering a New Industrial Revolution” https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/12/08/sustainable-biochar-to-mitigate-global-climate-change.aspx

Reading the bio-Landscape
with Optical Surveying Hand Tools

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Permaculture 2-day Playshop Introduction to Optical Surveying Using Simple Hand-tools and Your Body Learn to read the landscape using simple hand-held optical surveying tools, contour maps and walking the land to feel slopes and “keypoints” with your own body. Fundamentals of “keyline pattern design” will be presented as well as discussion about rehydrating landscapes and […]

Spring Garden Preparation

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Following is a quick list of notes from an interview. Also, follow Stacey Murphy and Brooklyn Backyard Farmers- the Brooklyn Backyard Farmer has an excellent collection of informational and training videos. She also holds online classes where you get to interact. In her spring planting class templates and Excel spreadsheets are available to map out […]

Monthly Meetup @ 6:30 3rd Thursdays

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* Organizational Meet & Greet * Thursday July 16 @ 6:30-8:30 Come get to know and play with your fellow Delaware County Permaculture, Rocket Stove, Aquaponics and Surveying Food Security enthusiasts. We will go round so each can do a brief intro – who are you, why are you here, what do you hope to […]

Reading Landscape with Simple Handtools
Optical Surveying Skills Building

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Permaculture 2-day Playshop Introduction to Optical Surveying Using Simple Hand-tools Learn to read the landscape using simple hand-held optical surveying tools, contour maps and walking the land to feel slopes and “keypoints” with your own body. Fundamentals of “keyline pattern design” will be presented as well as discussion about rehydrating landscapes and extending water holding […]

Past Classes & Events

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~ 2015 PERMACUTURE  CLASSES ~ Practical Permaculture Finding Your Sustainability Niche Sat May 23 – SEVA Foundation, South Kortright NY   Brief description: Practical Permaculture — Finding Your Sustainability Niche An introduction to Permaculture principles, ethics (of “Care for Earth, Care for People and recycling surplus through the network-system), and the basics of reading landscapes. Hands-on […]

Why Permaculture?

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  Why Permaculture? We are loosing soil. We loose 6lbs farmable soil for each pound of food we consume 24 california, 18 in China, topsoil is relentlessly being eroded and destroyed destroyed. In 49 years whole world may be desertified if we continue with modern farming/agricultural practices. As the soil depletes, it depletes faster – […]

Guerilla gardening | make it look less obvious

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Hidden Forest Gardening When your growing areas appear to be random and chaotic, they are less likely to be noticed and plundered by passersby – be it diaspora groups fleeing the city in a disaster or earth change or others who think it’s easier to take what you have instead of tend their own gardens. […]

How to manage and use water running through a property?

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Slow it, Spread it, Sink it Water flows through a landscape from high energy, low potential highlands to low energy, high potential lowlands. A large pond at low points on your land make sense and will be productive reservoirs, but you will have to spend energy to pump it up where you need it. By […]