This Website is a creation brought to you by TreeYo Permaculture as an online service to those who are seeking information about various aspects of Permaculture. By using a multimedia approach, we hope to bring you as much concentrated information as possible which allows you to surf one site rather than the whole web for different facets of Permaculture. We really hope that you will leave comments or questions so that the collective genius of the Permaculture community can be realized. Through this blog format, we can have an open dialogue and co-create so that future users can access not only the valuable information but also the design process itself.
Harmonized natural building in El Bolsón, the southern mountains of Argentina, employing patterns of sacred geometry to the principles of Permaculture with a greywater system and food production around the house using passive solar design. CIDEP, El Bolsón, Argentina 2012. Photo Credit: Eva Wimmer
Much of the information is derived directly from the curriculum presented in our courses and is a reflection of our take on Permaculture. The project of the Course Compendium is a massive undertaking and we welcome any feedback to help drive it forward.
Furthermore, this is an online reader for those who will be taking permaculture courses with us or other teachers. We feel that it is a testament to the permaculture philosophy of being completely open-source with everything we do, Cooperation not Competition. At the same time we also recognize the intellectual property involved and we wish to honor the system of Collective Commons.
The Website is structured to echo the 14 chapters of Bill Mollison’s Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual with an additional 3 sections: Food Fermentation (Bill actually considers his most important work to be his book Ferment and Human Nutrition), Natural Building and Animal Systems (emphasizing Holistic Management).
This is also the same framework in which we organize our Permaculture Design Courses (PDC). We find that people come to our regular TreeYo Permaculture site from googling things like Earthships and swales. So we have created this site which will probably take a year to create and will be directing you as well to other places with more information so that we are not reinventing the wheel.
*** If you do use the pics or logos please give us credit on your site as you will see that we do the same. Enjoy the website and please do contribute anyway that is of value! ***
Students practicing Fermentation at a course In Portugal, 2011
Photo Credit: Eva Wimmer
For our website covering our courses and consulting and documentation in general, please visit www.treeyopermaculture.com and email at treeyopermaculture@gmail.com
