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Here is the latest presentation and virtual tour of how our residential property has evolved over the last 15 years. This is a live presentation given during one of our recent (2022) online PDC courses. Plenty of before and after photos with quite detailed explanations. Includes candid questions from our students.  https://youtu.be/Zc14O0OqBsw Below is the […]

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, […]

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:  […]

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 …

2022 Course Schedule is Released! Read More »

Picture Summary: Clay-slip Straw Cabin Build The cabin is available for overnight stays through our HipCamp listing. Enjoy the cabin and visit this Midwest Permaculture design site at CSC in Stelle, IL. Tours available. Our First Cabin is Done – Completed 2020 We guided the design and construction of the first of several cabins on […]

Building Raised Beds on Contour When our community pond became stagnant from silt runoff and the build-up of plant detritus over 40 years, it needed some serious rehabilitation and excavation. In 2018 we hired a contractor to help us with the job (a nearby friend and neighbor of the community) but what to do with […]

We recently visited a long-term project of ours, Bending Oak Permaculture farm in Youngstown, Ohio. We have been designing and implementing for this demonstrative site for over seven years, and to see it transform from a plot of barren land into an abundant, regenerative ecosystem has been incredibly rewarding. To help share what we are […]