permaculture journeys around the world...
Photo: Talent Show! In true premie-fashion, even Party Night has a multi-functional purpose…Students have just spent an entire day presenting and watching other students present, not to mention the...
Photo: Banana leaf sheet mulch deployed in raised bed garden. Hana, Maui. Banana leaves have many uses in the Islands (and in all traditional cultures where banana plants grow), though here's one...
Elyse Peterson is an experienced food scientist in the dairy, seafood, meat, and soft drink industries, Elyse served two terms in the Peace Corps helping promote sustainable food security solutions...
Photo: Mongolians work new potato fields in Zavkhan Province (2010), and are learning to grow vegetables because changing weather patterns are rendering ancient grazing patterns obsolete. “Food...
PermablitzHI#1: PermablitzHI is a grassroots movement restoring Hawaii's food security one backyard at a time. Before. Photo: Backyard paring lot behind Sweet Home Waimanalo Cafe. After...
Permablitz (noun): “Blitz”, from the german for lightening, means a focused application of energy. A permablitz is when that energy is focused on installing part of a permaculture system. “Perma”...
Photo: Backyard urban aquaculture can be beautiful and functional. This humble (and beautiful) fishpond processes most of the kitchen scraps from the Laudowicz household of 5. When the family moved...
Photo: Banana circle - functional and beautiful. We stumbled across these simple banana circles at Laulima Farm in Kipahulu, on the road past Hana in the shadow of Haleakala (which I highly recommend...
Photo: Oahu, 'The Gathering Place'. Its been a long & winding road, spanning from a small cluster of islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to the island-continent with one coast in the Pacific...