Tag: permaculture

Permaculture and mental health

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We are living in challenging times. The care crisis, the climate crisis, and in many cases the housing crisis hit many of us in Europe and around the world. Where are we heading? What will the future bring? How can we cope with overpopulation and biodiversity loss? How can we cope mentally, facing all the damage we cause as humans and all the hardships we create to fellow living creatures?

One way might be permaculture. I strongly believe, feel, and experience that learning about permaculture and participating in permaculture and social permaculture practices are very good and sensible actions to contribute to the common good and also our own self-care and mental health.

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Frog habitat from a bathtub

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It is so amazing to observe Nature, doing her thing!

I managed to recycle an old bathtub recently. Also, I managed to collect a bunch of tadpoles from a forest. They are just now turning into adult baby frogs.

I would like to share some pics about the process with captions. Today they started to come out of the water. One of our aims as permaculturists is to create more habitats and increase biodiversity. I already have the truck tire pond in my garden but there is fish in it, probably a bit more than ideal, so frogs stopped propagating there some time ago. This new bathtub pond will hopefully serve as frog-propagation habitat and I am not going to put fish in that one.

First, a slightly mesmerizing video:

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Introduction to Permaculture (basic course)

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Pupils are enjoying the vermiculture experience

I put together a short course for schools, gardens, municipalities, communities, interested people. I am happy to come to your site or community and offer this to your audience. This is the basic structure of the course that can be modified according to the needs of the specific audience.

Duration of the course: 2-6 hours (according to local needs)

Age group: any (the course is always tailored to the specific audience)

Main topics covered:

  • What is permaculture
  • Permaculture and its potential in environmental, social, economic sustainability
  • Ecosystems and their importance in permaculture
  • “Observe and interact” and the permaculture principles
  • Composting and vermiculture
  • How to set up a worm bin at home

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Spreading the WORM, #spreadingtheworm

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We are launching our new project in Malta called:

Spreading the Worm!

At Juno Heights Garden we organised a number of Open Days in 2017-2018.
Chatting with our visitors I realised that people are often really interested in household scale, worm-based composting, called “vermiculture”. Also, I keep getting random requests for worms.

Kitchen scrap, paper, cardboard, kitchen paper towels, leaves, old pot soil, dust, even cotton-based clothes can all be recycled with the help of worms. The outcome of the process is worm manure or worm compost (and worm tea), that can be applied to the soil to improve its quality. Moreover, worm compost is richer in nutrients compared to “normal” compost, as it is animal manure, not only decomposed plants.

And…

One of the most beautiful permaculture ideas is: “Share the surplus”. I often have a surplus of worms, who are rather active multiplying in my worm tubs and bins. Continue reading “Spreading the WORM, #spreadingtheworm” →