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Permaculture Design Certificate Course 2023, Australia, QLD
The next PDC course at Nossa Forest Retreat, 13-24 October 2023.
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Ian Trew at the Feel Good Community Podcast
Life, death, and everything in-between. Exploring the physical, psychological and spiritual world of Permaculture with Ian Trew
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The Bunyip Pump: Pumping water with water. No electricity. No fuel.
In this little video Ian Trew interviews one of the co-founders and designers of the Bunyip pump – Brett Porta.
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DIY Worm Farm – Vermicast, Worm-Juice, Soil Life & More!
Picture diary – building a worm-farm to collect vermicast & worm-juice.
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How to Test Drinking Water – Permaculture Safety Tips
Water quality tests used by scientists – home guide for home use.
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From Grassland To Food Forest
So how to we actually start from ground up? In this short video Ian Trew walks through various stages in establishing a food forest and explains the process of how we actually help to speed up changing grassland into food forest. More FREE Videos Watch our free permaculture course introduction here: WATCH HERE
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Planting in Guilds – An Example
In this video Ian Trew explains why we should be planting in guilds to accelerate growth of the main plant we want to grow fast – a citrus tree in this case. The little fruit tree is getting shade by the popcorn acacias around, who protect the little fella until he can rise and produce […]
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How To Start Your Food Forest: Ground Cover
How to start a Food Forest In this video Ian Trew walks us through the steps on how to start a food forest in sub-tropics or tropics. In this example we’re using bananas to start our food forest. Bananas grow very quick and provide a lot of shade within the first 12 months of growth […]
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Permaculture Design Certificate Course 2023, Australia, QLD
The dates for the 2023 PDC course have just been announced..
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Ukraine Permaculture Aid – How You Can Help
Few days ago I got an email from a fellow permaculturist in Ukraine about their current situation and project and how you can help. Here’s the email: Dear fellow permaculturists and agroecologists, Please support projects of the NGO ‘Permaculture in Ukraine’ to help victims of Russian aggression: Supplying the first aid kits (https://tinyurl.com/43kr2mzj) to Ukrainian […]
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“The Three Sisters” (Corn, Bean & Pumpkin) – Companion Planting Guild.
Over thousands of years, peoples of South America traded & shared this guild along river valleys, until it merged with peoples in North America. Producing large amounts of surplus, populations were not only sustained – but thrived & grew to what they are today (5). Corn. Climbing beans. Squash or pumpkin. Steps: Plant 5 CORN […]
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DIY Worm Tower / Hotel = Perpetual Organic Garden
This DIY Worm Tower / Hotel instantly delivers high-value worm juice directly to the root zone creating high-quality organic garden soil. Here’s how… STARTING MATERIALS… Soil which easily allows burial of Worm Tower / Hotel: Raised garden bed. Loose soil in deep garden bed. Large pot. Stack of three car tyres (rims removed). Note: Car […]
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10 wind break species for the Sunshine Coast
Hibiscus tiliaceus – Cottonwood (flowers, edible, medicinal) Leptospernum laevigatum – Australian Tea Tree(flowers, medicinal) Acronychia laeris – Hard Aspen/Northern White Lilly Pilly (aromatic, flowers, edible) Cupaniopsis anacardioides – Tuckeroo (flowers, edible) Melaleuca viridiflora – Broad Leaved Paperbark (flowers, medicinal, bark useful) Banksia aemula – Wallum Banksia (flowers) Pipturus argenteus – Native Mulberry (flowers, edible, dye) Alectryon […]
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10 Windbreak trees for the Sunshine Coast
10 Wind Break Trees For The Sunshine Coast 1- Hibiscus Tiliaceus ( Cotton Tree) used for rope making and the bark for infusion for antiseptic 2- Pandanus ( Bush tucker fruit growing to 40cm wide) 3- Syzygium luehmannii (Bright Red Edible Fruit) 4- Bottle brushes (Good for bees and Birds) 5- Olive Trees ( Great […]
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10 Windbreak Trees For Central Coast NSW
I believe these trees are all high-emergent strata trees (except coastal banksia may function as medium–I’m not sure). More could be said for lower strata plants, but here are 10 upper strata trees: tallow wood (Eucalyptus microcorys) fencing timber turpentine (Syncarpia glomerulifera) construction and marine infrastructure timber crop Casuarina glauca (swamp oak) native support species, […]
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10 wind break tree species for Brisbane, South East Queensland (SE QLD), Australia
Which wind breaking tree species to use in South East QLD? Here’s a list of 10 great wind break species for Brisbane / South East Queensland.
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10 best windbreak species for South-East Queensland, Australia
The 10 best windbreak species for South-East Queensland, Australia. See the list below, with each plant name and use case. Lilly Pilly’s food and bird/ bee attractant Lomandra grasses for underplanting Bottle brushes bird/ bee attractant, firewood Olive Trees food Manuka / tea trees: Medicinal, firewood Blackwood timber/ furniture, firewood Queensland Wattle tree tall/ emergent […]
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Food Forest: A Short Film Published By National Geographic
National Geographic published a short film about a food forest in the UK: “UK-based Martin Crawford is one of the pioneers of forest gardening. Starting out with a flat field in 1994, his land has been transformed into a woodland and serves as an educational resource for others interested in forest gardening. This short film […]
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Homemade Laundry Soap
Making laundry soap at home is easy. Check out the video tutorial with step-by-step guide by Lorraine.
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Wind Protection: Local native plants Tilligerry area
10 native plant species for wind breaks in the local/Tilligerry area + helpful attributes: 1. Melaleuca hypericifolia (Hillock Bush) – flowers / pollinators 2. Omalanthus populifolius (Bleeding Heart) – ornamental garden plant (beauty) 3. Cupaniopsis anacardioides (Tuckeroo) – Street tree, Decorative fruit, Erosion control, Fast growing 4. Exocarpos cupressiformis (Native cherry) – The timber was […]
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Garden bed building
Hi team, I built our garden beds here by taking off the grass first and moving top soil to the side then added some moreton bay fig mulch and sticks then organic sugar cane nitro raw cut mulch then some grass clipping compost.. I then added top soil back on and mulch on top. Our […]
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10 Windbreak species for Coolgardie, NSW
Very windy up here at times so shelter and wind breaks are much needed! Passionfruit vines = beautiful fruit great distance covered for shelter in summer and lets light through when leaves die off. Lilly pilly Acmena Smithii = thick and lush pleasant to look at. Fejoa hedges Acca Selliana= hardy ever green leathery leaves […]
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Using Soil Tinctures to = “Feed The Soil, Not The Plant”.
Healthy plants look great, produce high quality produce, repel pests (via volatile organic compounds) & more. To sustain health, they require a wide range of nutrients, much more than NPK – nitrogen, phosphorus & potassium. The basic nutrients (biochemical sequence) are used in the order… Boron, which activates: Silicon, which carries all other nutrients, starting […]
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WIND BREAK SPECIES OF ISRAEL
Date Palm – Edible Black Mulberry – Edible Myrtle – Incense Oak – Firewood Pine – Aesthetic, Carob – Edible Olive – Edible, oil Rose Bushes – Aesthetic, fragrants Pomegranate Trees – Edible
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My son’s donkey has become an integral part of our garden
My son has spent the better part of the last year bothering me to buy him a donkey. He is not your typical 13 year old boy. He shuns TV and video games and spends his time on the sheep farm just outside of our community where he helps graze the sheep (I do as […]
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Next residential PDC course on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, August 2020
Thought about doing a residential PDC course this year? The next 12-day Permaculture Design Certificate course: 21 Aug – 01 Sep, 2020. The PDC course is run at the Noosa Forest Retreat in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, QLD Australia. PDC teachers: Ian Trew and Christina Laurikainen Exciting guest presenters on specialty topics like urban permaculture […]
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Wind Breaks for Geelong Victoria
Wind Break Species for Geelong, Victoria Species Benefits/other uses Lilly Pilly (Acmena Smithii) Fast growing; shade or sun; drought tolerant; edible berries. Lemon Myrtle (Backhousia Citriodora) Tolerates cold to temperate climates; edible leaves, essential oil Clumping bamboo (Schizostachyum Zollingeri) Fast growing in sunny spot; doesn’t need […]
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Insight Into Permaculture Communities, the ‘Permaculture Design Certificate’ (PDC) Course & Work-Exchange (WWOOF).
How to develop an idea, business or property by teaching permaculture…with little or no money. That’s if you don’t choose a free-living lifestyle & become a world traveller instead!
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Are These Potent Inhibitors of Coronavirus in Your Kitchen Garden?
In this post, we use peer-reviewed journal articles to understand how a collection of edible plants help generate immunity to coronavirus (COVID-19) & other serious viruses.
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Free Electricity from Compost – DIY Earth Battery.
Bacteria produce electricity. This article explains how they do it & shows you what you need to produce free electricity from compost, garden soil, potted plants, wormfarms, greywater systems, blackwater systems, aquatic plants…bacteria!
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The Golden Spiral & it’s Application in Natural Building ∞ DIY Wood-Fired Pizza & Hot Smoking Earth Oven
How to PLAN, BUILD & USE a wood-fired oven with locally sourced natural materials.
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Nutritional Diversity Diet, The Sister to Permaculture, The Way Humans Evolved
Down in the Republic of Panama, a small group has embarked on a journey of a more internal nature, eating a highly diverse set of plant species specifically from permacultures, and testing the effects athletically. They are calling it the Nutritional Diversity Diet, and the results they are recording are nothing short of breathtaking, and […]
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Gratitude!!!
Hi to all like-minded holistic persons, What a lovely Permaculture Course Introduction. It was short, sweet and educational. There was just the right amount of valuable information in the free introductory course to get you thinking and to keep you wanting more. I have just recently completed my Holistic Life Coaching Certification. I have […]
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Mexican researcher created biodegradable “plastic” from cactus juice
This Mexican researcher has discovered a way to turn cactus leaves into a material with similar properties to plastic.
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Next Residential PDC Course – Aug 2019 – at Noosa Forest Retreat
Thought about doing a residential PDC course this year?
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What is Permaculture & How Can it Meet Our Needs?
A collaborative brainstorm exploring how permaculture helps meet needs.
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Q&A panel discussion: “What does it take to build an eco-village?”
A Q&A panel discussion with alternative community leaders in Australia. On the panel: Renee Rivard and Ben O’Callaghan from Currumbin Eco-village. Morag Gamble from Crystal Waters. Ian Trew from Noosa Forest Retreat. Jason “Djalmbu” Hilder from the University of Queensland. Phil Benjamin, Communities Resident. Alex J Hobbs from Starlight Community.
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Next Residential Permaculture Course (PDC) at Noosa Forest Retreat – March 2019
Thought about doing a residential PDC course this year? The next 12-day Permaculture Design Certificate course: 22 March – 02 April 2019 MORE INFO & BOOKING Where? The PDC course is run at the Noosa Forest Retreat in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, QLD Australia. Cutting Edge Permaculture Learn cutting edge permaculture from a team of […]
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Integrated Health & Wellbeing – Talk by Ian Trew at Polkadot Festival 2019
Just last weekend in Noosa, the Polkadot Festival was on for 2 days. We’ve been there…
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Loving Nature, Natural Building & All Things Permaculture!
What’s one of the most fascinating things you’ve learned in your teaching Permaculture & Natural Building?
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Why We Need to Focus on Earth, Not Mars!
‘Physics World’ invites a permaculture teacher to comment on future missions to Mars during a special ‘Focus on Astronomy and Space’.
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10,000+ Seeds, Zero Maintenance… How Much Food Will Grow?
1 weekend setup – $200 budget – Zero maintenance.
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Next 12-Day Residential PDC Course November 2018
The residential 12-day PDC course at Noosa Forest Retreat in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, QLD Australia.
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Sucking Carbon Out Of The Air – And Making Clean Fuel From It
This is an engineering breakthrough on two fronts.
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Eco-Biz Creation & Permaculture Innovation for First Time Entrepreneurs
From permaculture to profitable eco-business – how is it done?
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Building Organic Soil Through Composting
My method of soil improvement through composting uses a combination of ideas…
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Organic Broad-Spectrum Herbicide Recipe (Wild-Foraged from ‘Weeds’)
Extracting & using organic growth inhibiting substances which kill up to 100% of species.
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What is permaculture? By Bill Mollison (2010 ‘Australian of the Year’).
2010 “Australian of the Year” Bill Mollison explains Permaculture.