Please consider this a "hold the date" posting for the 6th Annual Northeast Permaculture Convergence which is due to be held in Unity Maine, July 2-4 of this year. We would love to have our Canadian neighbors join us! Will post more details as they become available...

Please consider this a "hold the date" posting for the 6th Annual Northeast Permaculture Convergence which is due to be held in Unity Maine, July 2-4 of this year. We would love to have our Canadian neighbors join us! Will post more details as they become available...

Red Sand Cottage Permaculture is born and in it's infancy! We purchased a property up on the West Side of the Island near the North Cape. It has 25 acres of land, mainly woodland, but plenty of growing space and room to raise our livestock.We are not yet living there because we still need to sell 'The Romany Rest', but we have already started to plant a Forest Garden and begun the permaculture design for the site.We have had an Eco Energy audit done and are in the process of implementing the…See More

Hi folks!I've been thinking a lot about setting our property up as a food forrest.My first thought is: On the North side of the property to plant a line of semi dwarf and then one of dwarf fruit trees along the 200 foot driveway as a wind break. I noticed today, after the New Year welcomed us with a 2 day storm, that when we were ploughed out a lot of snow got pushed into the place where I want to set the trees, so we'll have to start planting further away from the edge of the driveway than I…See More