DIY Super-Clean Composting Toilet System

Completely Minimize the Odors…! After doing much of the same research that many of you have probably done, and after working with a half-dozen different systems (some top name over-the-counter), we always ran into something that made the process either disgusting or problematic. As we solved these challenges one at a time, we developed a …

Picture Summary of September, 2022 PDC at Bending Oak

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

Completely Minimize the Odors…! After doing much of the same research that many of you have probably done, and after working with a half-dozen different systems (some top name over-the-counter), we always ran into something that made the process either disgusting or problematic.  As we solved these challenges one at a time, we developed a …

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Design and Tour of MWP Home Residence

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 …

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Super Easy Cold-Compost-Pile Harvest

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, …

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Simple Mills Supports Regenerative/Permaculture Farmers

While attending an agroforestry conference recently, Bill was pleasantly surprised to learn that Simple Mills was being referenced as a cutting-edge business doing “all the right things” to encourage environmentally sound, regenerative agriculture. Two years earlier, Simple Mills founder Katlin Smith, was a student in one of our week-long Permaculture Design Courses when the lightbulb …

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2022 Course Schedule is Released!

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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