What does permaculture look like in real life? Nestled in southeast Calgary is one of the City’s original thriving permaculture projects – our home.
As engineers and long-time permaculture designers and teachers, we’ve traveled the world to learn about sustainable and regenerative human habitat and have implemented many of these concepts on our property. We’ve been transforming our inner-city home into a permaculture demonstration site since 2009, and are thrilled to show you what we’ve done!
YOU WILL SEE & LEARN ABOUT:
– a few core permaculture principles and strategies for energy-efficiency, reducing water use, cycling nutrients, and growing food.
– a thriving food forest complete with fruit trees, bushes and tons of edible/medicinal perennials
– a passive solar greenhouse with rocket mass heater
– our water harvesting systems
– our energy-efficient house retrofits
– composting systems
– our handmade cob oven
– our solar-powered water heater
– our mega-productive veggie gardens (with wicking beds and swales)!
– and much much more!