“CIDEP is the Centre for the Investigation, Development and Education of Permaculture in El Bolson, Patagonia.”
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Seed Communities: Ecovillage Experiments Around the World
“Curious about the leading edge of green living? After traveling to ecovillages on five continents, Professor Karen Litfin shares some gleanings about how these seed communities might help us to create a sustainable future.
$1 MILLION on 10 acres — Scaling up the small farm with JM Fortier.
Curtis Stone, the Urban Farmer, and JM Fortier, the Market Gardener, are both are highly influential sustainable agriculture experts who are educating others about six figure income farming (how to make growing food profitable without expensive machinery). Their ideas can be scaled up or down. You can use their ideas in your back yard or on a commercial farm. They both offer a ton of free information on their websites and YouTube channels. I’ve already spent hours immersed in their sites absorbing as much as I can.
Channel Rock – Permaculture Wonderland on Cortes Island
“Channel Rock is an off-the-grid site with accommodations for 40, delicious organic food from our permaculture garden, hiking and beach activities.
Bio-Bturner-100: Burning Spoiled Corn and Other Waste Products
The Bio-Burner by LEI Products burns a wide variety of biomass fuels for heating your home, shop or garage with the BB-100 (100k BTU burner/boiler). Their videos show how you can burn low value biomass materials such as manure, spoiled corn, spoiled animal feed, hammermill residues, wood chips, grass pellets, chopped switch grass, wood pellets, chopped corn cobs, beans, walnut shells, sawdust, sunflower meal, stover pellets (compressed plant stalks), animal bedding and more. If you live in an agricultural area it seems like you could probably find some waste stream biomass materials that would work. You’re not restricted to store bought pellets.
Earthsong Farm and Herbal School
“Sara Markis, Owner/Creator/Curato, has after 8 years of developing & gathering skills, come to the point of crowdsourcing for 300 acres (or more!) to be home to an Herbal school of 100-200 students from around the world, a natural farm garden & orchards and community of 500 households along with Auditorium,Farmer’s Market & Organic Cafe. … Read more