My First Week at Thailand’s Newest Permaculture Farm
Aid Projects, Community Projects, Demonstration Sites, Eco-Villages, Education Centres, Village Development — by Theron Beaudreau January 26, 2012
In a rural village at the Southwest corner of the Isaan Plateau, just over an hour drive south of Thailand’s second largest city, Korat, a band of tenacious permaculturalists have just arrived at the site of their new home.
Over the course of the next year, infrastructure will be erected, community and teaching spaces will be established and a traditional corn and rice farm will undergo a dramatic metamorphosis. The work here has already begun… and I’d like to take you along for the ride!
Comments (13)Imagine the Abundance – Your Urban Landscape
Courses/Workshops, Land, Urban Projects, Village Development — by Theron Beaudreau November 16, 2011
The Urban Consultancy and Design Course experience at the Permaculture Research Institute.
Imagine, you’re perusing the Sunday paper, thumbing through various articles, world news, sports, opinion pieces… yea, we’ve all been there. What feelings arise for you as the images pass by your eyes? Article after article, world news and local… everything seems so dismal.
In disgust and with a freshly drained world view, you fold the paper up and drop it back down on the table. Just before looking away and try to forget the morning sorrow a small advertisement catches your eye.
FREE GARDEN
DESIGN & INSTALL
Free garden? Sounds too good to be true. But it’s about the only positive thing you’ve seen this morning. What have you got to lose?
What you don’t know is that, behind the scenes, there are 20 knowledge-hungry permaculture students waiting to get out of the classroom and get their hands dirty in your very own backyard!
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Courses/Workshops — by Theron Beaudreau November 1, 2011
My experiences learning how to rehydrate landscapes and develop myself into a Permaculture Professional through the PRI Internship Program.
Over the past three plus weeks myself and 15 other cohorts have been fully engaged in farm life. And, although there are several aspects of this lifestyle that you might expect out of a typical farm experience (i.e. milking goats, turning compost, planting veggies, etc…) this is far from a typical farm!
Comments (1)Consensus, Community and Addiction
Alternatives to Political Systems, People Systems, Society, Village Development — by Theron Beaudreau August 11, 2011
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our ability to cultivate the reality we seek is determined by our ability to communicate constructively. Community is the result of a conversation and, by the very nature of this conversation, community is inherently multi-dimensional. We all have different stories to tell and we all see reality through a different set of lenses. The variety of these perspectives is both the greatest challenge and the greatest opportunity for the cultivation of CommUnity. In this way, ‘Community’ can be seen as the ‘Communicational Unity’, otherwise known as consensus.
Natural Building Fun!
Building, Waste Systems & Recycling — by Theron Beaudreau March 3, 2011
by Theron Beaudreau, Austin, Texas
Building slipform walls out of woodchip mulch and paper pulp. We put together this video to show how fun natural building can be… especially if you enjoy getting a little dirty!
Every Sunday I’ve been getting together with some friends to work on various permaculture projects. It’s something that’s become a trend for several years now. There have been several ebbs and flows over the course of that time but the general trend has been ever climbing. These days, Sunday workday/potlucks are the norm for me and my circle of friends. Just over this past year we’ve built several gardens, re-landscaped a housing co-operative’s front entryway and built a few aquaponics systems. During the month of February, we took to a natural building project that will soon become a large new greenhouse.
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