Happy & Healthy Soil

Our 7 Golden Guidlines that help us keeping our Soils happy & healthy........

5 Precepts of Peace

Hot Compost – Composting in 18 Days

Regular composting, also known as “cold composting”, involves placing a variety of organic materials in a compost bin, enclosure, or even just in a large heap, and leaving it there until it breaks down several months later. It’s a very slow process and typically takes 6 to 12 months. It can be sped up by turning the compost, that is, moving around the material at the bottom of the heap to the top and vice versa to mix it up and get more oxygen in there, but it’s still a long wait.

The other approach to composting is “hot composting”, which produces compost in a much shorter time. It has the benefits of killing weed seeds and pathogens (diseases), and breaking down the material into very fine compost. In contrast, cold composting does not destroy seeds, so if you cold compost weeds, any weed seeds will grow when you put the compost into the garden.

see the full articel here:
http://deepgreenpermaculture.com/diy-instructions/hot-compost-composting-in-18-days/

Slideshows of past Courses on You tube

here is a link to our you tube channel were you can have a look on some slideshows from the past courses all around the world we have been involved in,please see more here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWW4w0qi2rAJ8TeCyPl3ttQ

Backyard Orchards – A New Approach to Growing Fruit Trees in Limited Spaces

This article is an introduction to the gardening technique of “Backyard Orchard Culture” – a system of high density planting of fruit trees which allows for a wide variety of fruit to be grown in a limited space, and harvested over a prolonged period of time.

 

 

 see more here:  http://deepgreenpermaculture.com/backyard-orchard-culture/

Deep Ecology and The Great Turning

"The Great Turning is a name for the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization." Joana Macy

I find great inspiration, hope and optimism in the Deep Ecology movement! I participated in my first Nature Connection Workshop in north India in 2013 with my dear friends Om and Tom, the founders of Gaia Ashram and Gaia School Asia http://gaiaschoolasia.com/gaia-school-asia-ashram/

During the workshop, I discovered the healing and clarifying practices of The Work that Reconnects by Joana Macy. http://www.joannamacy.net/ and was greatly inspired to begin leading workshops or sharing these exercises and awakenings.

It is work that requires courage and love, but I also believe that these are qualities we already have in abundance by the nature of what we truly are.

This illustration by Dori Midnight, showing the spiral of the process of the work is a beautiful metaphor.

by Dori Midnight

Multiple Functions of Perennial Agriculture