We graduated two permaculture classes already this year and it's not even May yet!...our Online PDC and a 7 day Permaculture Agroforestry in the Tropics in Nicaragua this February, which we plan to make a yearly event at Selva Negra, in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Selva Negra is 1600 acre, 5th generation organic coffee and cocoa farm.They have 5 bio-digestors, turning waste into energy and cleaning all the effluent from washing the coffee beans,all the water is gravity fed from protected springs coming from the ridge from their bio preserve. Agroforestry extraordinaire, wit ..read more

The Permaculture Living Lands Trust is up and running with our ,,website and writing our first round of grants while continuing to meet with new potential partners like the Savannah Institute and a New Jersey Conservation group. ,,View our latest newsletter here Check out our first ever tropical Permaculture Design Certification in Nicaragua, the first of more to come at this ideal setting in Nicaragua for learning the systems of Permaculture that truly solve our climate, economic and social justice issues. You will see anaerobic bio-digestor run kitchens 100 year old agroforestry plant ..read more

The Tupelo are starting to drop there brilliant red foliage and small berries along our path as we walk through the woods, a clear sign of our turning toward autumn. Here at the Center For Bioregional Living our view is towards fall projects and the beginning of our school year at Juniper’s nearby Montessori school. I will be teaching Permaculture Design courses there too as part of an exchange we do to stay out of the money economy as much as possible. I have been reading a number of books recently that I will pulling new insights and material from; Cracked by Steven Hawley on the continuanc ..read more

This has been a busy spring into summer here at the Center For Bioregional Living. We just finished a two day Natural Building intensive, the last of our hands-on classes of the season, which began with Designing with Water in Mind, keep your eye out for our fall offerings and get in touch if you want to arrange for some volunteer work days here. We have been teaching at Junipers Montessori School, CCHS as a barter for her tuition. We are bringing Permaculture education to their program for the next 4 years. We toured our latest Hempcrete house and made clay plasters here and visited our frie ..read more

Whole Site Permaculture Design May 27 and 28 - 10am 4pm - $200 Don't miss this hands on Permaculture course this weekend with dinner included and camping! In this whole site design course we will be teaching you how to read the landscape and show you how to create designs in the field. This course will focus on laying the groundwork for an entire land development project such as establishing ecological businesses, community farms, eco-villages, co-housing and homesteads. Topics covered: Reading the landscape, making use of topography and hydrology, reading biological indicators. whole site an ..read more

It's a busy spring here at the Center For Bioregional Living. I am walking a good diversity of properties, helping my clients throughout the region to make sense of what they own, what trees are there, how to understand and solve water issues, from a 7000 square foot Bed and Breakfast, on 12 acres just down the road from the Omega Institute, being considered by a graduate with a Ph.D for a ecological B & B to a 1/4 acre property for a client in White Plains. Just taught a Designing Your Farm with Permaculture in Hudson, NY - at Tomorrow Tomorrow Farm - https://www.tomorrowtomorrowfarm.org ..read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSEGvb5Yh-A&fbclid=IwAR1wGjeLTtc3yDlKSE0O9z_A2JNqd6DR_KzHqIvd8DDqV_BhKf5Hdj_NQcIFood First Energy Second! About our local community and poorly placed renewable energy systems. I wanted to report on my continuing research into what's happening in Ulster County, the Rondout watershed and the region, in regards to these oversized solar projects getting plopped down on good farming land and smack in the middle of beautiful views. After reading many documents like; Accelerating Large-Scale Wind and Solar Energy in New York State (The first word in title kinda say ..read more

LATEST NEWS Permaculture Living Lands Trust We are excited to announce that the Permaculture Living Lands Trust - Agroforestry Commons has now been awarded official federal 501(c)(3) status. We are now a federally recognized public charity and can receive donations to apply for grants for Permaculture Our Vision: A food forest in every community. Our Mission: Establish nonprofit Agroforestry Nurseries and Community Food Forests on land held in trust and permanently protected, to provide a long-term supply of perennial and annual foods accessible to all local residents in communities throughou ..read more

Here I share the history of how Colonialism laid the foundation for industrialization and unprecedented human exploitation of one another and the planet. I read sections from each of these books shown and how the theme of history reveals the patterns of our demise and of our healing solutions ..read more

Why 100% Electric “Renewables” Are Not What We Need From my drives throughout our area walking properties for clients, I am noticing many Solar arrays of sizable stature on nice old farm fields; off Upper Cherrytown, in the Town of Rochester, on large old fields in the Pine Bush area off of rt. 52, and of course the 5 acre array in Napanoch on 209, across from Peter’s Market. All of what I am seeing is grid tied. So to break it down for you, as someone who lived off the grid for 8 years building my own straw bale home, in Pocahontas county W.V., framed with wood from the 17.6 acres of raw land ..read more