by Melanie Mindlin | Jul 25, 2021 | blog, Uncategorized
For me permaculture is the ultimate collaboration and when I discovered it in 1991 it was the biggest aha of my life. In that moment I realized that there is something that we can call the way that I think. The first step for me was understanding the collaboration...
by Melanie Mindlin | Jul 25, 2021 | blog, Uncategorized
Castellana Ave, MadridYale Environment, 6/1/20 We have had many opportunities to apply the permaculture principle “Creatively respond to change” since the onset of pandemic. Some of us made major lifestyle changes; some of us on homesteads or in communities found our...
by Melanie Mindlin | Apr 12, 2021 | blog, Uncategorized
How I Used My PINA Design Contest Award: Salina Duncan, Garden of Hope, Guatemala Beds and Water Distribution Remodel Thanks to the Permaculture Institute of North America, The Garden of Hope’s Beds and Water Distribution Project was a huge success! Despite the...
by Melanie Mindlin | Jan 2, 2020 | blog, Uncategorized
We hope you find inspiration and some design tweaks or ideas in the diverse stories we share in this issue of regenerative projects from around the world. Chinampas Chinampas, an ancient form of water gardening created by the Aztecs, uses the natural accumulation of...
by Melanie Mindlin | Dec 31, 2019 | blog, Uncategorized
by Tao Orion An award of $5,000 from PINA’s 2018 Design Contest enabled my husband Abel Kloster and me to build out a large pond at Aprovecho Institute near Cottage Grove, Oregon. The vision for this major earthwork started around 12 years ago, soon after we...
by Melanie Mindlin | Aug 29, 2019 | blog, Uncategorized
Evidence that permaculture is moving into the mainstream continues to manifest. Urban Planners are being exposed to the concept of a seven layer food forest on city land as a key strategy for food deserts and implementing public food forests in multiple cities....
