Introduction Community resilience & permaculture design course

The permaculture principles are not only reminding us how to design lands and communities but also how to react to change and make decisions. We had to postpone our PDC because of COVID-19. However, we will start with a 3-hour permaculture session each afternoon following the topics, knowledge, and structure that would be part of a normal Permaculture Design Course. In addition, we will put our main focus on building abundance/resilience in terms of food production, plant medicine, and social permaculture. We also make it available for everybody in social isolation and start sharing the essence of our daily session with the global community and likeminded friends. Join us on this learning journey starting this Friday, April 3!

Permaculture design: How to support nature in a way to become a thriving ecosystem?

Want to know how to design a garden using the permaculture approach? This article and the video shows how we incorporated a garden and shelter to fulfill our needs in harmony with nature. It gives you an understanding of how we came up with the garden design, featuring the permaculture zoning. It gives you an overview of the different stages we went through to turn a degraded area into a thriving ecosystem full of food for soil and humans.

How to build your house with mud? "The roundhouse" a natural building project at Gaia Ashram

Want to know how to build a tiny house made out of mud-bricks or other natural materials. This article and the video shows all the stages we went through to build our first mud brick house, following the tiny house principles. It is a reflection on the process building a tiny house (40sqm plus outdoor kitchen) within 11 months from March 2018 to January 2019.

It’s going up! Building mud bricks walls

Building the walls of our roundhouse.

WEARING GOOD BOOTS: building a foundation

On our way to build a natural house we've learned to value the foundation.