“The Natural Living School is an institute for individuals looking to make Natural Building, Permaculture or Natural Building Education into a career. Graduates can move on to a profession as a general contractor in natural building, a teacher, or a consultant.”
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Rancho Mastatal
“Rancho Mastatal is an education center, working permaculture farm, lodge and community rooted in environmental sustainability, meaningful, place-based livelihoods, and caring relationships.
Things Are Coming to a Crossroads
We live in a crazy world, that’s for sure. Many serious problems are now simultaneously coming to a head: groundwater depletion, pollution of groundwater with fracking, mining, industrial and agro chemicals, risk of nuclear war, concerns over Fukushima radioactive fallout. Experts say the oceans are expected to be depleted of sea life in just 30 years. (Most people now live near the oceans and rely on seafood for sustenance and income.)
Areas With Few or No Codes: Ozark Plateau
We’ve had a lively discussion for years here on our Natural Building Blog about the best places to live with few or no building codes that make it easy to build a home out of low cost natural materials and create a homestead. In my opinion the Ozarks is a top choice for natural building and homesteading in the US due to many factors.
How the Panya Project makes easy probiotics LACTO
Lacto is also called Rejuvelac or probiotic water. You can make this literally for pennies. These probiotics have 1,001 applications from ingesting to treating fungal feet, pets, household cleaning, cleaning tools, and washing veggies and fruit. It’s a common product among homesteaders. Perhaps the main use is to repopulate healthy gut bacteria.
Is Colorado Too Cold for Homesteading? Search for Warm Microclimates
A reader left a comment the other day about how they love Colorado but said it’s too cold to live there. That comment was the inspiration for this blog post, which is about finding relatively warm areas in a cold climate.