Category: Permaculture

The UW-Odyssey Project changes lives for adults near the poverty level. Now in its 15th year, this inspirational project has empowered more than 400 low-income adults to find their voices and get a jumpstart at earning college degrees they never thought possible. Graduates of the program have journeyed from homelessness to UW-Madison degrees, from incarceration…

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Stephen Packard, Restoration Ecologist, discusses the environmental requirements for successfully reestablishing prairies and focuses on how to cultivate seeds, the germination process, and how to pollinate plants. Explore the full archive of PBS Wisconsin University Place lectures online anytime at https://pbswisconsin.org/universityplace and on the free PBS app on Roku, other streaming devices and Smart TVs.…

Milwaukee’s Growing Power, a community-based urban food center, is using plants as natural water filters for raising yellow perch. Fred Binkowski, an aquaculture specialist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, provides technical advice on the experimental effort. www.growingpower.org www.seagrant.wisc.edu Source

Mapping can be done remotely, anywhere in the world for any location. Permaculture designers use a body of known facts—science—to find patterns for piecing together productive properties. In order to do so, we need to know everything about a site, not just location (distance from equator, altitude, distance from ocean) but also the specific features.…

Eight years since participating in a permaculture design course and I think I’m getting the rudimentary aspects, or at least the health benefits of growing bionutrient dense food. I coined a new word: Bionutrient. A new term: Bionutrient dense. #Bionutrient #Bionutrientdense #Permaculture Source

Excerpt from our new documentary “Green is the New Silver (Lining): Crisis, Hope, and Permaculture.” Check it out above, then click here to see the full 30-minute video: https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/12454/e3i2ci3L Applied permaculture design provides us with the strategies we need to adapt to a changing world. And by doing so, we can make a difference not…

Agari Permaculture Farm, in Victoria, Australia, is a workshop space for natural building, permaculture, natural health, healing and more. This short film gives a tour of their amazing cob house, earthbag dome, kitchen/social area, and shows the awesome people who created this great space. ** More about Happen Films ** Support us in making more…

This short film is bonus content part of the feature documentary Permaculture The Documentary. Featuring Co-originator David Holmgren and Indigenous Australian Nyoongar, Yondee (Shane Hansen) centres around the Ethics of Permaculture and sustainability. In this 20 minute film, discover the design ethics of Permaculture; Care of Earth, Care of People and Fair Share and how…

Gardens are an old idea, but they turn out to be powerful educational machines in a modern school. In this video, students and staff from Washburn School District in northern Wisconsin reveal their school garden’s money-saving, academic, and nutritious benefits. More info: http://dpi.wi.gov/wisconsin-school-meals-rock Source