Picture Summary of September, 2022 PDC at Bending Oak

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We just wrapped up our 95th Permaculture Design Certificate course. This time we were hosted by Bending Oak Permaculture Farm in Youngstown, OH, an ongoing permaculture site that we have worked closely with over the past ten years. Here is a glimpse of how the course progressed. Early on, students reviewed the pre-study materials and …

DIY “Super Clean Composting Toilet” Design

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“We love the composting toilet. It’s so clean, and we can’t believe it doesn’t smell!”  What is a composting toilet? A composting toilet is a waterless toilet that works by digesting waste through composting by encouraging aerobic bacteria to break solids down. This type of toilet is a practical option for an outhouse in a […]

Design and Tour of MWP Home Residence

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Sample the PDC Course! The video below is an actual 45-minute section from our Online Permaculture Design (PDC) Certificate course. This will give you a very good feel for this 72-hr. training. In this section, Bill shares a full overview of how he and Becky designed and implemented a permaculture design on their residential property […]

Super Easy Cold-Compost-Pile Harvest

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Spring is here at Midwest Permaculture.  It’s time for the annual harvest from the bottom of our cold compost pile. Along with beautiful compost, we are always pleasantly surprised by another yield uncovered. We started this area as a hugelkultur bed with a moat on three sides to retain water. Once filled with logs, sticks, […]

Simple Mills Supports Regenerative/Permaculture Farmers

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Update: March 2024 To all our friends from Simple Mills and Elsewhere… Here is the story of how we met Katlin and what hit home for her while going through the Permaculture Course. This Exact Training is Now Available Online!Work at Your Own Speed, from Home. Thoughts that Katlin left for us in Google Reviews:  […]

2022 Course Schedule is Released!

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Now that we have our course schedule finalized for 2022, we wanted to share a little highlight of what taking a Permaculture Design Certificate course with us is really like. We believe there is much more to permaculture than what is in the designer’s manual. As its founders Bill Mollison and David Holmgren stressed, the …

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