Jen Nobel: Northbound Bloom Ecological Land Design
Geoff Watson
Brendan Te Brinke
Sam Chaib
Shiloh Zayac
How Permaculture Changed My Life, by Jen Nobel
Welcome to “How Permaculture Changed My Life”, our blog series featuring personal stories from Verge grads speaking on how permaculture shaped their careers and their lives. This time we’re [...]
How our process helped this graduate see his property in a whole new light
My name is Ian Griebel, and I operate a 2,300 acre ranch with my wife Dana Blume and my two wild little boys Cohen and Fynn. I’m the third generation farming this land, but have only been doing [...]
A Closer Look at Permaculture’s Most Famous Quote
This week, I want to go over a case study in rainwater harvesting design. This example is special to me because it’s about how we partnered with my mother-in-law to transform her property into a [...]
How Permaculture Changed My Life, by Gaëtane Carignan
Welcome to “How Permaculture Changed My Life”, our ongoing blog series that features personal stories from students speaking on how permaculture shaped their careers and their lives. [...]
Hope Knowledge and a Plan – Barrier1
On Living Larders, Part 1: A Definition
On our way back home from a consultancy, Takota Coen and I were talking about how brilliant permaculture is at solving problems, specifically when it comes to food security. After some productive [...]
Mike Ward: Crossroads Valley Farm
Takota Coen: Grass Roots Family Farm
Maddy Purves-Smith: Custom Woolen Mills
Carmen Lamoureux: URBANFARM Permaculture Project
The Salatin Semester Online | On Demand
Are you ready to embark on your own Lunatic Farming Adventure?
We've taken our 12 DVD Disk box set, orginally co-produced with Acres USA (and originally priced at $249USD), and are now [...]Meet Verge Grad Carmen Lamoureux: URBANFARM Permaculture Project
Verge Grad Profile Carmen Lamoureux, Founder, URBANFARM Permaculture Project. (Now Urban Farm School) Graduated from PDC in Calgary 2013. Carmen’s Expertise: Soils, Silviculture, Forestry, [...]
Lyme Disease and Permaculture Part II: You Do Not Suck
To get caught up and find out why Lyme disease is spreading like oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico, check out Part I. We’ll all wait for you. We’re nice. So, reason number three why Lyme [...]
Top 8 Basic Home Design Flaws
Over the past 10 years I’ve seen a lot of mistakes in home design in both urban and rural properties. Over the next few blog posts, I want to look at some of those blunders and point to [...]
Permaculture Business Part 3: On Barriers
(Find Part 1, Tips from the Pros here and Part 2, Opportunities and Niches here) A Personal Take on Barriers to Success As with any career or business, there are barriers to achieving success. [...]
Investing Like An Ecosystem
Over the last few years, I have been formulating my opinion on how to approach investing and what do to with extra cash. And I can’t believe how many people have told me in the last few [...]
Case Study: How Ecological Design Can Mitigate Life, Financial and Infrastructure Risk
Identifying the Formative System The consultancy that I performed was in Central Alberta on the Red Deer River, which delineates the badlands from the grasslands. You can see in the photo that [...]
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 [...]
Gardening in Art and Community
Luke is our outgoing intern and the 2011 Contest Winner for the Sunnyside Garden Centre Writing Competition: "How is gardening a form of artwork, and how does gardening build [...]
Letters from Jordan from Rob: Part II – The Conference
On September 17th, 2011 I attended the tenth international permaculture convergence (IPC 10) in Jordan… (which also happened to be my birthday). To read Part I of this series, click here. [...]
Verge Permaculture’s Urban Gardens in 2011
2011 has been an exciting year of observing and interacting with the ecosystem that surrounds our urban home. There have been many successes, and many great learnings! Here is a slideshow that is [...]
Starting Down the Permaculture Path: Thoughts From a PDC Student
This article was written by Verge Permaculture Sidekick, Alex Judd. I feel immensely lucky to have participated in Verge’s Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) in Nelson this year. [...]
Why Permaculture Design?
Why Permaculture Design? Peak Oil, loss of diversity, species extinction, conspiracy, oil spills, food insecurity …. the problems that we face seem to increase both in size and complexity [...]