Recent Articles

A Typical Summer Morning for a Permaculturalist (in: Doniga's Blog)
Jul 22, 2010

As we are nearing the end of July, I am looking back and noticing how fast the month has gone by.  When living with the seasons, life can fly by when there is not a moment to sit and reflect because the cow needs to be milked, the strawberries harvested, grass-fed beef orders to fill, butchers to talk to, and the list goes on...

Details for the July Guild Meeting (in: Guild Meeting)
Jul 22, 2010

Join us for our members-only guild meeting on Thursday, July 22nd at 5pm PST. Details are in this article. 

Seasonal Abundance: Summer Strawberries (in: The Gardening Gals)
Jul 16, 2010

Biting into a ripe strawberry is like eating candy.   Why stop at one when you can have a whole flat or more!

One of the farmers from our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) grows organic strawberries, so every week we receive a generous pint of strawberries.

Jersey Milk Cows and the Permaculture Principle: Catch and Store Energy (in: Featured Species and Principle)
Jul 4, 2010

I am going to relate a milk cow with one of the 12 principles David Holmgren defines: Catch and store energy. By developing systems that collect resources when they are abundant, we can use them in times of need. A milk cow is a great example of storing sunlight, transferred through the grass she consumes then to the milk we drink. By having a milk cow allowed to forage on grasslands, we are drinking a little sunshine in every glass.

Tribal Magic - The Secrets of Amazing Group Experiences (in: Ecovillages & Governance)
Jun 29, 2010

Some group experiences in my life felt just as transformative and magical as falling in love. Why? Bellman and Ryan studied the secret ingredients of extraordinary groups - made of perfectly ordinary people.

Permaculture in Arid Landscapes with Bill Mollison (in: Foundations of Permaculture)
Jun 29, 2010

Here is the third of 15 Pamphlets from a Permaculture Design Course Taught by Bill Mollison in 1981. We will post a new one each week here on Earth Action Mentor.

Permaculture for Kids Using the Permaculture Principles (in: Ethics & Principles)
Jun 21, 2010

Often I am asked whether or not anyone has adapted Permaculture teaching for kids. I know there many out there who have thought about this, and there are also people who are doing it right now.

Permaculture in Humid Landscapes with Bill Mollison (in: Foundations of Permaculture)
Jun 17, 2010

Here is the second of 15 Pamphlets from a Permaculture Design Course Taught by Bill Mollison in 1981. We will post a new one each week here on Earth Action Mentor.

Details for the June Guild Meeting (in: Guild Meeting)
Jun 14, 2010

Join us for our members-only guild meeting on Thursday, June 17th at 5pm PST. Details are in this article.

Chicks Out to Pasture (in: Doniga's Blog)
Jun 11, 2010

When the chicks were 3 weeks old, we moved them out to a portable pasture pen. We would have moved them out a little earlier, but the weather was cold and wet and we were waiting for a stretch of warm weather for their first days out. They were ready to get out of the brooder.