Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker, Episode 3: Marda Permaculture Farm in Palestine

Aid Projects, Community Projects, Courses/Workshops, Demonstration Sites, Education Centres, News, Soil Erosion & Contamination, Storm Water, Urban Projects, Village Development, Waste Water, Water Contaminaton & Loss — by Patrick Blampied May 15, 2010

‘Confessions of a Permaculture Aid Worker’ is a weekly podcast show from PRI Australia aimed at documenting the experiences of people out in the field and making more information available about what’s happening in the Permaculture world.

In Episode 3 I’m speaking to Murad from Marda Permaculture in Palestine. He runs a Permaculture demonstration site and is co-teaching a PDC with David Spicer and Brad Lancaster in June 2010.

Links referred to in podcast:

• Marda Permaculture Facebook Page
• June PDC

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Topics covered in this episode:

• Details and purpose of site
• Conditions in Palestine
• Education and training
• June PDC
• Blackwater
• Pig Grazing and Damage

7 Comments »

• thanks for this, it makes me sick to my stomach that these settlers continue to make life so hard for these village folk.

  i mean what kind of despicable people run their sewage out on anothers orchards, i hope spontaneous seismic activity makes ariel uninhabitable.

  Comment by abdullah — May 15, 2010 @ 11:50 am

• It is pretty sad. It would be nice if the authorities did something about it and it taught whoever is responsible a little bit about getting along with their neighbours.

  Comment by Patrick Blampied — May 17, 2010 @ 9:11 am

• Thanks for putting this up Pat

  Comment by Kaya — May 25, 2010 @ 11:16 am

• No probs, hope it helps! Also hope all the planning is going well

  Comment by Patrick Blampied — May 25, 2010 @ 10:22 pm

• Hi Patrick, Murad,

  Did anyone have any views on whether mycofiltration could help clean up black water? See Mycellium Running by Paul Stamets – Chapter 5 – online here: Mycellium Running Google Books review page.

  Comment by Morag — June 9, 2010 @ 5:18 am

• Yes I’ve seen this book, Paul Stamets is excellent. Filtering blackwater is possible but I wonder how it could be done in this situation. The shear volume would be a problem i think, not that I have been there. If the water could be slowed down and directed through a large multi-stage reed bed it would actually be a wonderful show of resilience, turning a terrible waste product into an incredible resource.

  Comment by Patrick Blampied — June 9, 2010 @ 12:56 pm

• Agreed. The land looks quite steep too in places. Perhaps a series of reed bed terraces topped/built with hessian sacks filled with straw or similar carbon rich material and inoculated with fungal mycellium. It’s difficult to know without being on site. Something for the students on the Marda PDC to ponder? I’d love to hear if they come up with a solution.

  Comment by Morag — June 9, 2010 @ 10:57 pm

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