Sustainable Infrastructure
May 16th to June 20th 2024
About this course:
Managing land ecologically is a resource-intense activity which requires finding a balance between consumption, ecological impact, and financial solvency. This course will provide practical answers on balancing these often complex and sometimes competing needs. Sustainable Infrastructure centers student understanding on the fundamentals of farm and ranch scale energy systems, material choices, and waste management. We will explore how to design, maintain and manage energy systems, integrate cyclic waste management strategies, and evaluate and find low-impact materials for landed projects.
I asked a guy, who was tearing up a driveway a couple miles from my place, if I could have the busted "urbanite" for #landscaping, as my site has NO rocks (unless they were brought here). I'm 72 and I really should find some helpers. Every piece gets picked up and set down at least 3 times before coming to rest, not to mention busting up the big piece and fine shaping the smaller ones. It adds up and my knees let me know they are not thrilled. Oh, well. I think it looks nice & I love the work. Keeps me exercised while wearing me down. Like Life. #urbanite#hardscaping#permaculture#gardening
At work we've just begun migrating a few thousand workloads to a new datacenter facility and besides that I'm barely using computers right now. These time-outs just come and go. Meanwhile I leased a 500m² garden and cheerfully dig into this shit. And of course the roof of the summer house there is leaky.. 😉 So.. don't mind me not reacting to your comments and new followings, I'm just outside wearing my straw hat! 🙃
À ton avis, elle est où la vie, la biodiversité ? Qu'est ce qui va mieux résister à la chaleur cet été ?
C'est aussi se poser la question "C'est quoi un jardin propre ?" #jardin#permaculture
The pace is relentless now and gathering force. Everywhere extremity is emerging into the fabric of human economy and of global ecology. Immediate ecology restoration and green infilling is needed, urgently. #Permaculture may be necessary to secure food supplies and build resilience to supply chain collapse.
Water, water everywhere, & not a [safe] drop to drink. More rain & flooding to come. Compound #catastrophes become very expensive.
"The city of 1.3 million inhabitants has been almost totally cut off by the #floods.
An estimated 80% of its population do not have access to running #water after five of the city's six water treatment plants ceased working.
Suzan, a resident of Porto Alegre, said that people in the city had "never experienced anything like it".
J'ai passé quelques jours à l'étranger la semaine dernière et, dans la voiture nous menant à Plouhinec, j'ai entendu une émission de radio sur l'agriculture syntropique
Pinning by way of an #Introduction
Nicky Grady Scott, Master #Composter, on this week's #AccidentalGods#Podcast exploring the ways we can recycle everything from our food preparation. Nothing is waste. Ever
In this month's composting newsletter: understanding the thermic phases, recording the sounds made by the bugs in the compost heap. Plus three songs about worms.
Violaine, membre du collectif Le Battement d'Ailes, nous en dit plus sur l'importance d'intégrer des notions agro écologiques et permaculturelles à l'école, pour passer de l'école de l'être à l'école du faire.
Let me disabuse you of the idea that a Martian colony is the way to save mankind.
Survival on Mars is 1000x more difficult with no free flowing water, no atmosphere, no ozone, no magnetosphere, much less solar radiation to power anything including biological life.
Choosing Mars is picking the absolute worst probability to beat gambler's ruin.
Even a 3' warmer Earth is better.
The first IQ test is to stop pursuing stupid ideas as a magic bullet.
Next no dig bed in preparation, just waiting for some rain to wet the card before adding compost and woodchip. It’s quite a damp bed as in a little hollow so eventually will be home to a willow #permaculture#NoDig#Veganic#ForestGarden#Gardening
Hidden Lotus Herbs is getting ready to move to our new #farm site and really ramp up our operations!
For some backstory,
I was the recipient of a fund from @coop to start a worker-owned #cooperative and decided to make it an herbal apothecary!
We've been operational for around six months and are now starting our regenerative agroecological farm and increasing the capacity of our free clinic.
However, the #renewableenergy systems we're building are more expensive than we budgeted for, and we could use some help getting the farm and clinic going financially.
We're really needing help from our community to make all this cool stuff happen!
If you can spare some $, please consider supporting our transition and future. If you can't, please share far and wide!
Après un CA des Sheds, une petite visite du parc-jardin s'impose. La Photo en illustration est l'entrée de la zone #Biodiversité du Parc-Jardin des Sheds, à Kingersheim.
Cette Zone n'est pas destinée au potager, ni aux fleurs, mais à laisser des zones contrôlées de végétation naturelle.
C'est aussi notre réservoir d’orties (pour le purin). La deuxième photo montre le hache-paille antique qui nous sert tant.
Did you know that putting floating solar on only 10% of the surface of all the reservoirs that humans have built could provide 110% of the electricity that we now are producing? Well, now you do.
...streets and plants a bit of grass in between the stones. The surface cools down considerably. Then, there is the ancient technology of building wind-cooled houses in the #MiddleEast that I talked about last year. 2)
If "everyone" were able to cool down their...
Design & Build: From Raw Land to Small Farm
Our next permaculture workshop is on April 27th up in San Miguel. Join us for a tour of a grow-to-donate vegetable farm and fruit orchard in San Miguel. We will discuss the design of the farm, terracing, water system, crop layout and rotation, and Spring planting pre https://www.permacultureday.org/listing/design-build-from-raw-land-to-small-farm/
Very chilly and pretty miserable out there so have only planted a few things today - herbs on the windowsill, and some flowers to attract some bees and things.
I've got some chard, onion, marrow and Pak choi seeds to plant hopefully tomorrow although finding things to plant in is becoming a challenge, as you can see from what I've planted into today 🤣.