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Permaculture Tip of the day – How to Talk About Permaculture
How do you talk to people about permaculture? Very carefully. Just joking. Honestly though, talking with people about permaculture sometimes can be down right difficult to do. You just got immersed...
View ArticlePermaculture Tip of the day – Hydrating a Suburban Food Forest With Swales
Nicholas Burtner is at the School of Permaculture’s suburban site, demonstrating properly designed swales in a back yard food forest. The suburban earthwork features have substantially hydrated the...
View ArticlePermaculture Tip of the Day – Self Wicking Seed Starter
Nicholas Burtner explains what is seed starter and talks us through how to put together a larger version which is good for all types of permaculture site applications, and especially for the suburban...
View ArticleWorld Changer Interview Series – Nicholas Burtner Interviews Brad Lancaster
Well known and respected author and pioneer in dry land water harvesting strategies, Brad Lancaster, sits down to an upbeat and revealing interview with Nicholas Burtner where he opens up about his...
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Permaculture Tip of the Day – People Care Part 2
Communication - noun com·mu·ni·ca·tion \kə-ˌmyü-nə-ˈkā-shən\ : the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts,...
View ArticlePermaculture Tip of the Day – Swale Crossing Suburban Size
Nicholas Burtner is at, what is believed to be the first apartment complex in the country (USA) that has specifically asked for permaculture and a food forest, woohoo!!!, and shows us a how to put in...
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Permaculture Q&A Series – Charging Clients
Recently I received an inquiry about the article I wrote titled: What Should I Charge as a Permaculture Design Consultant? and found our dialog to be potentially very useful to permaculturist in...
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School of Permaculture T-Shirts 2015!
100% ORGANIC COTTON SCHOOL OF PERMACULTURE T SHIRTS! $25.00 (Free shipping in contiguous 48 united states. Contact us to determine international shipping rates) PROCEEDS GO TO OUR AID AN ORPHANAGE...
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Take a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) in Haiti
PDC – October 8 – 20, 2015 – La Gonave, Haiti School of Permaculture is inviting serious permaculture enthusiasts to come with us to Haiti. Take a PDC in a dry land climate, a climate that is located...
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What Does School of Permaculture Do?
We get asked this all the time, what does School of Permaculture do? We are glad you asked… School of Permaculture, a 501c3 non profit organization, has 4 main components: 1. We are an education...
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Highlights of our Haiti PDC 2015
Trees and their energy transactions taught under the shade of a mango What an honor it was for us to get to deposit a swath of permaculture into the island La Gonave, Haiti. More specifically into the...
View ArticlePermaculture Tip of the Day – Gravity Fed “Dark” Gray Water System
Gray water is typically any waste water that is used other than the toilet and kitchen sink water. Dark gray water is the same but inclusive with the water that drains from kitchen sink. Nicholas...
View ArticlePermaculture and Dentistry…
What is permaculture? In this video, Dr. Abramczyk of Smile Ranch Dentistry interviews Nicholas Burtner of the School of Permaculture about the different parts of permaculture including housing,...
View ArticlePermaculture Tip of the Day – Are Pallets Poisonous?
Nicholas Burtner searches through a few stacks of used pallets (with permission of course) and gives a very timely and practical tip on which pallets to use and which pallets to stay clear of –...
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People Care: A Manifesto
Dear Permaculturalist, Is Permaculture only about growing food in a sustainable way? Is it only about designing ecofriendly landscapes? My Permaculture teachers (Wilson Alvarez and Benjamin Weiss)...
View ArticlePermaculture Tip of the Day – Replenishing an Aquifer with Swales – A Case Study
Nicholas Burtner is at Casitas Valley Farm getting the scoop from Warren Brush on how a 9 month old swale has had unbelievable aquifer filling ability for a well on the property, even in the midst of...
View ArticlePermaculture Tip of the Day – Quick & Easy Freeze Protection For Your Plants
School of Permaculture graduate and owner of Dancin Creek Permaculture Center shows us how to make a quick and easy portable freeze protector that can be set up in a few minutes. Just in time for...
View ArticlePermaculture Tip of the Day – Mediterranean Dry Land Gray Water System &...
Nicholas Burtner gets a tour of Orella Ranch with Loren Luyendyk as he discusses the intricacies of planting a gray water banana circle-ish system in the Mediterranean dry lands. You can contact/hire...
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Choose School of Permaculture as Your Amazon.com Charitable Organization
Did you know that Amazon donates a percentage of sales to charitable organization of customer’s choosing and it costs the customer nothing? Even though we highly recommend buying local – for those...
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Edge Effect: Tools for bridging communications gaps
In our efforts to empower large-scale land restoration and effect cultural transformation to a society of earth repair and stewardship, we must educate, inspire, and engage. To accomplish this, we must...
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