The Green Dreamer Podcast: Regeneration as a Real Path Forward
I recently had the chance to chat with Kamea Chayne from Green Dreamer Podcast about the poor condition of our soils and the solutions to address this problem, how we can eat a truly sustainable [...]
Good Life Revival Podcast: Rainwater Harvesting for Adaptive Habitats
How did Verge Permaculture begin? What is the order of operations in permaculture design if you want to prevent flooding and water scarcity ? How does a rainwater harvesting system mimic the [...]
Storing Heat Underground in a Geo Solar System
As an engineer and permaculture designer living in a cold-climate, I am particularly fascinated with the interplay between thermodynamics and design and with capturing “waste” energy [...]
Urban Swales
Last year, we did a series of videos looking at the swale systems on our property and demonstration site. Part one looks at how we’ve combined the featuress of a Hügelkultur system, a wicking [...]
Meet Verge Grad Jeremy Zoller – Sunshine Earth Works
Verge Grad Profile: Jeremy Zoller, Owner, Sunshine Earth Works Graduated from 2013 PDC in Calgary Jeremy’s Expertise: Permaculture Design, Landscape Construction, Earth Repair Jeremy’s Story: [...]
Off the Deep End: How We Installed An Underground Rain Tank
A step-by-step account of installing an underground rain tank in our backyard for additional rainwater harvesting storage.
Thinking Out Loud: Rentier Capitalism, Natural Capitalism, and Permaculture – A Few Observations
Ecological destruction and environmental degradation are merely symptoms of a more profound structural economic problem endemic to industrialization and consumerism. As can readily be observed, [...]
Groundswell Greenhouse Grangers…. (at it again)
Last weekend both Jordan and I had an amazing opportunity to be part of Rob Avis of Verge Permaculture’s Design Team, participating in an applied Design Practicum at the Groundswell [...]
Designing and Implementing Invermere’s Community Garden[...] Verge converged with Big Sky Permacultu...
ChrisDo you guys plan on incorporating principals ...
Katrina KellnerSuch great work! Really look forward to getti...
Swales: The Permaculture Element That Really “Holds Water”
Michelle, Rowan and I were driving home from a vacation in the mountains when we passed by a swale on a farmer’s field in the middle of Alberta cattle country. Naturally, it piqued my [...]
JohnThanks for posting this. Saw a video on perma...
Designing and Implementing Invermere’s Community Garden[...] job was to design the water system that...
Reconstructive Earth Surgery
Having started my engineering career in the oil and gas industry my first experience with large earth moving machines was relatively negative. Whenever I had to employ them it was to bring down a [...]
Permaculture Goddess Temples | Tantra Punk[...] What it once took generations to achiev...
2010 Nelson PDC at Mountain Waters
Rob & I were invited out to Mountain Waters Retreat, in the beautiful Kootenay Valley, to teach a Permaculture Design Certificate Course to nine students. We are having a wonderful time and [...]
Australian Permaculture Tour – Part I
This is part one of a four part series about Rob & Michelle’s three month journey exploring, visiting and learning about the what’s going on in the permaculture scene in [...]
Australian Permaculture Tour - Part II | Verge Permaculture[...] Find part one here. [...]...
Great article guys - you rock!...