Design
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Syntropic Agriculture: Cacao, Costa Rica, Case Study
After organising and attending our first syntropic farming workshop in 2019, our team at Porvenir Design knew that we were…
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Living the Homesteader Dream – Part 2
Facing the encroaching winter and water-damage to all of the 100-year-old lumber we’d painstakingly repurposed, we had to improvise. We…
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Living the Homesteader Dream – Part 1
I’ve just switched the overdrive off so the truck can more easily handle the trip up the mountain, and beside…
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Ancient Gardens of East Asia
When we think of gardens in Asia, particularly the Far East, it’s hard not to envision rice terraces. Terraces shape…
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Biogas and Carbon Farming – Part 3
In our three part series we have examined the use of biogas to reduce emissions and drawdown carbon as a…
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Biogas & Carbon Farming – Part 2
In the first article in this three part series, we discussed our decision making process to use biogas. In this…
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Biogas and Carbon Farming – Part 1
Maya Mountain Research Farm is a permaculture project in the foothills of the Maya Mountains in southern Belize. It was…
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The Cure of the Earth
Love of life is the guide and motivator of ecological healing on Earth. Next comes learning how to put that…
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Geodesic Bamboo Stardome
We just built two beautiful geodesic bamboo star domes for the Wangunsari Permaculture Project in Indonesia, the smaller of which…
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My Permaculture Design Mistakes
Like anyone, I find it much more inspiring to talk about gardening and building successes. That rhubarb we planted last…
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Check Out Your Permaculture Tool Box
I have been teaching Permaculture for over thirty years and learning about it for all my life. Really. It’s only…
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The Mud Room: Stacking Functions in Design
I look forward to the mud room. That name means something to Emma, a term she grew up with, but…
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