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Terraces at Kinstone

Just arrived at Kinstone and walked out to the terraces that we put in last year. They are doing their job wonderfully! Holding water (ice and snow). We configured these terraces with a slight backslope, and as you can see they are holding water for the plants that we will begin inserting in 2013.

How to Grow Food in a Drought

Here is an excellent article on growing food in drought conditions: water, water, water!!! Check out the PDF presentation in this post…

Midwest Drought Threatens Crops, Livelihoods and Food Prices

How in the world does this get translated into “food” prices? They are not growing food, are they? Yes, livelihoods. Are they threatened? Could it be that this is a blessing in some sort of corn silk disguise? Corn, the way it is grown in this country, cannot be mistaken for “food”. Is it the [...]

Water by Pablo Neruda

Our most precious resource, for many more reasons than we would expect: Everything on the earth bristled, the bramble pricked and the green thread nibbled away, the petal fell, falling until the only flower was the falling itself. Water is another matter, has no direction but its own bright grace, runs through all imaginable colors, [...]

Water by Steven Solomon

Just about finished reading this very astute and immanent book about the history of water usage across the globe. The rate that the world’s most precious need is being consumed by the haves is astounding. Peak oil is nothing compared to this. We cannot drink oil nor bathe in it. Read it…

Bangkok Near Chaos, with Flood Mobs and Drinking Water Shortage

This article really struck me deeply. When lack of drinking water and the threat to people’s homes comes down on the population, the population gets a bit bent out of shape, for good reason. The way we have “designed” our lives, clustered in massive concrete vortices simply does not work. When drinking water becomes the [...]

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    Wayne Weiseman's 2013 Course Schedule

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    George Mason University
    Washington, D.C.
    March 9-16
    PDC

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    Accoceek
    Accoceek, MD
    March 23-29
    PDC

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    Accoceek
    Accoceek, MD
    March 30
    Biodynamic Intensive

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    KAAP
    ( Kinstone Academy of Applied Permaculture)
    Fountain City, WI
    May 18-19
    Cordwood Construction
    Workshop
    (with Richard Flatau) 

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    May 25-June 2
    PDC 

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    June 22-30
    Plants

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    July 13-14
    Cordwood Construction
    Workshop
    (with Richard Flatau) 

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    July 20-July 29
    Natural Building with Straw-Clay Slip

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    SouthWoods Permaculture
    Prior Lake, MN
    July 29-August 4
    Advanced Permaculture Design and Project Management

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    Crazy Rooster Farm
    Mondovi, WI
    Aug 3-11
    Animals in a Permaculture System 

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    KAAP 
    Fountain City, WI
    Aug 3-11
    PDC

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    Center For Deep Ecology
    Albert Lea, MN
    August 26-September 2
    PDC

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
     Sept 21-29
    Water and Earthworks

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    Fort Worth TX
    October 3-6 and 24-27
    PDC 

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    October 12-20
    Permaculture in the Urban Environment

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    Koinonia
    Americus, Georgia
    Early 2014
    PDC

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    January 2014
    Advanced Design

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    January 2014
    Advanced Farming

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    KAAP
    Fountain City, WI
    January 2014
    Advanced Teacher’s Training

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