Permaculture Photo Gallery

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Strawbale Building
Kandal Village IRAQ

Resettlement of IDPs in Kandal Village in Makhmur District through training of building alternative houses (strawbale), rehabilatation of their water system, provide basic livelihood elements for income generation; and generally educating the community on sustainable design systems and income generation using the science of Permaculture (Permanence in Culture).
Counterpart International initiated the resettlement of 52 families of internally displaced persons (IDPs), in Makhmur District, Erbil Governorate, Iraq. .

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Permaculture home gardens in Jordan developed by students of permaculture design certificate courses. See the articles page for details of our ground base funding scheme for permaculture home gardens in Jordan.

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The latest photo's of the Dead Sea Valley project site.

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The Jordan project is in the Dead Sea Valley 400m below sea level, the rainfall average is 150mm and the temperature range is subtropical because of lack of altitude, the soils is 5000 parts per million salt, and the only water available is ground water at 4100 parts per million salt. The purpose of the project is to demonstrate sustainable farming systems for small farmers and educate from the site. The project is funded by a Japenese aid organisation and facilitated by a Jordanian aid organisation. The site was first designed by PRI in August 2000 and water harvesting earth works were installed in December 2001, 1.5k of swales were install with a full capacity of 1 million litres of water. Permaculture Design Course were taught seperately to men and women in December 2000 and August 2001. The perimeter fence was finished in April 2001 and the first trees were planted on the same day. Only 1/5 amount of water was used to drip irrigate under the mulched tree plantings and 3 legume trees were planted to every fruit tree. With 4 months figs, pomegranites and guava's were fruiting and salt levels had began to drop dramatically under the swales. Many trials were laid out include a very successful 1/2 hectare of organic oinions. Chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons and 6 sheep were introduced to specially design animal housing and cut forage system with initial main purpose of establishing a diverse manure source. A gardian's house and an appropriate energy conserving education centre. A crop of winter barley was grown on the inter swale areas, to be use as animal feed and the straw as animal bedding, the to be composted and returned to the system.

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The Permaculture Research Institute first visited to consult on the site in the Dead Sea Valley in August 2000.
We returned in December 2000 to teach a permaculture design certificate course and direct the instalation of water harvesting earthworks.
In April 2001 the fence was finished and the guardian's house was finished and the first trees could be planted. 1510 were planted before temperatures became too high. Only 7 died of which 6 were an experiment and were planted with out deep mulch and 1 died because of a blocked dripper.
We returned in August 2001 to consult on the site development and to teach 2 more permaculture design certificate courses.

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Berkley 18 day compost constructions from around the world. Full description of this fast compost technique on the articles page.

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A field study trip to Morocco, to study arid landscape systems. With a particular interest in multi species date palm over storey food forest systems with bananas as part of the under storey, indicating a sub tropical climate similar to the Dead Sea Valley in Jordan.

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Hydromulch is a technology used mainly to spray on lawns but with a permaculture type of seed and cuttings selection this technology can be both very fast and appropriate. Organic fibre, fertilizer, glue, seeds, small cuttings, water retention gell, myclium fungi spores and nitrogen fixing bacteria can all be added to the mix. This is an ideal economic method to reforest directly after the instalation of water harvesting earthworks. After an application of hydromulch climax trees can be planted directly into the mulch the next day.

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This photo album shows step by step procedures of strawbale building courses held by by PRI at Diversity Farm.
PRI has been involved in consulting and constructing strawbale buildings in Australia and on permaculture projects around the world.

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The vegetable garden at diversity Farm was started in January 2002. Each on ground training camp has made a contribution to building and maintaining the garden. All growing beds are set up on contour to harvest water easily and reducing water demand.

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The Mexico project was started by students of the Permaculture Research Institute from our November 2000 design certificate course through their locally formed NGO Pacificos. Situated 60 kilometers south of Oaxaca City in Southern Mexico in the wet dry tropics. The project is funded by the Kellogs Foundation and aims to demonstrate, educate and network permaculture design on the aquired 10 hectare site called Bonanza. In October 2002 Geoff and Sindhu visited the site for 2 weeks, invited to work with the Pacificos team designing the site for main infrastructure placement and water harvesting earthworks implementation. These were an accomadation building for 40 students, a shower laundry compost toilet block, kitchen dinning room, classroom, administration building, workshops maintenance and craft, staff housing, a new access road, many swales, 6 dams and a small 3 canal chinampa system. Earthworks were completed for 3 dams, 800 meters of swale and a new access road. The Permaculture Research Institute will teach a design course on the site in June 2003 during this time more earthworks will take place and 3 more dams will be positioned plus many swales will be pegged and installed.

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Chicken Tractors: are system of designing chicken system where the chickens are put to work scratching over the ground removing any herbaceous plants eating weed seeds therefore breaking weed cycles, eating insects their eggs and larvae therefore breaking pest cycles. They naturally manure the ground increasing fertility and shred any mulch additions increasing its speed of decomposition increasing soil organic matter. The chicken are concentrated on one area just long enough to complete all these tasks but not too that they cause compaction or acid soil conditions. Systems can be design to cycle the birds through numerous permanent gardens or can be mobile systems that can be moved from garden bed to garden bed or across the landscape with tree systems being planted behind them. Performance will vary in relation to the size of the area, the time of the year, the climate, the original soil type, landscape profile, the number, type, size and age of the chickens.

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KIRIBATI PROJECT

The permaculture research institute has been involved in an on going consultancy with Full Circle environmental consultants working for Far South Pacific Kiribati a division of Counterpart International. Below is a brief over view of the project.

Project Objectives

Complete a systems analysis of country-wide inputs and outputs to determine strategic areas for system intervention with particular regard to: import replacement, improvement of efficiencies in resource use, and the identification of associated economic opportunities for Kiribati. The analysis will utilize systems modelling tools from eco-industrial design and permaculture to envision paths toward bioregional sustainability.

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The Permaculture Research Institute working for a Japanese NGO in the central highlands of Vietnam, taught a PDC and constructed water harvesting earthworks in 2000. The Lam Ha district is an area of intense deforestation under the pressure of mass colonisation, with the main aim of growing coffee. A demonstration site was set up to demostrate polyculture coffee production without soil erosion or the use of chemicals.

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