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We Teach Permaculture People Love This Course!IN PERSON ...or... ONLINE - 18th Year -Making the PDC Course Understandable, Relatable and Enjoyable."I ...| midwestpermaculture.com
We Teach Permaculture People Love This Course!IN PERSON ...or... ONLINE - 18th Year -Making the PDC Course Understandable, Relatable and Enjoyable."I ...| midwestpermaculture.com
This blog is a condensed version of the account of Troy’s three-month stay, written by Akira Hirose, one of our Online PDC graduates. He interviewed and cor ...| midwestpermaculture.com
Our friends at Foodscaper are rolling out their new Foodscaper Entrepreneurship School. Matt is a graduate of ours and has become a leader in this movement. ...| midwestpermaculture.com
This is a quick homemade DIY solution to manage flies around our goats. All it took was some sticky flypaper, a bucket and a few screws. Take a look at our video short… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePZdtbHK534 We used to use the fly catchers that hold water (stinky…!) and the sticky curly strips that pull out of the […]| Midwest Permaculture
Bill and Becky had an unexpected wild harvest in their backyard from a native plant, the American Wild Plum.| Midwest Permaculture
This weekend (May 4 & 5) our friends at Permaculture Magazine (UK) are offering those who are on our email list FREE digital access to their latest online issue. Simply click here to view. Back in March we supported their celebration of International Permaculture Week by broadcasting over their Instagram for an entire day. As a thank […]| Midwest Permaculture
Learn how the influence of ramps has built relationships within human and nonhuman communities. Part of the Allium (onion) family, Allium tricoccum, commonly referred to in English as Ramps or the Wild Leek, has been a staple of North American diets for centuries. Ramps can be found across northeastern America and Canada in the early […]| Midwest Permaculture
Here is the latest presentation and virtual tour of how our residential property has evolved over the last 15 years. This is a live presentation given during one of our recent (2022) online PDC courses. Plenty of before and after photos with quite detailed explanations. Includes candid questions from our students. https://youtu.be/Zc14O0OqBsw Below is the […]| Midwest Permaculture
Spring is here at Midwest Permaculture. It’s time for the annual harvest from the bottom of our cold compost pile. Along with beautiful compost, we are always pleasantly surprised by another yield uncovered. We started this area as a hugelkultur bed with a moat on three sides to retain water. Once filled with logs, sticks, […]| Midwest Permaculture
Update: March 2024 To all our friends from Simple Mills and Elsewhere… Here is the story of how we met Katlin and what hit home for her while going through the Permaculture Course. This Exact Training is Now Available Online!Work at Your Own Speed, from Home. Thoughts that Katlin left for us in Google Reviews: […]| Midwest Permaculture
Picture Summary: Clay-slip Straw Cabin Build The cabin is available for overnight stays through our HipCamp listing. Enjoy the cabin and visit this Midwest Permaculture design site at CSC in Stelle, IL. Tours available. Our First Cabin is Done – Completed 2020 We guided the design and construction of the first of several cabins on […]| Midwest Permaculture
This past June of 2021, we presented our first in-person PDC in over a year. It was an intimate course of 8 compared to the 24 person online courses we had been administering over the winter and spring. The change of pace was wonderful. We had the joy of hosting this course at Bending Oak […]| Midwest Permaculture
What is a composting toilet? How our DIY composting toilet system was built and how it works for our cabin and campsites on the CSC land.| midwestpermaculture.com
