Whilst on a tour of the US, Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton was giving a talk at Montpelier, Vermont when a young man gave us his business card and suggested we film his boss, compost maestro Karl Hammer and his amazing system of feeding compost to his flock of 100 plus chickens...

A great example of a cool climate permaculture make over. Inspirational too. Twenty years ago, Stefan Sobkowiak bought a commercial apple orchard with the intention of converting it to an organic orchard. He did just that, but eventually understood the limitations of the organic model...

Earlier this year, Geoff Lawton ran one of the biggest online Permaculture Design Courses. It ran for 12 weeks and featured content not normally shown in an average PDC course. What was it like? Is it worth doing and will students gain any lasting benefit from signing up with Geoff to do a...

We’ve been super busy working with Geoff Lawton on his new onlinePermaculture Design Certificate Course and creating a lot of exciting content that will make studying permaculture more accessible to a lot more people. The seats are filling fast as people take advantage of what the...

“This is possibly the best video on permaculture I’ve seen. I thought I knew a lot about the subject before watching this, but wow! I thought I could look at land pretty well before and start to assess it’s potential. I knew 10% of what I know now from this video! Amazing! My eyes are...

Its not often you get something for nothing, but we’ve  been working on a magnificent free lesson with Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton to show you how to do something quite remarkable. How to look for cheap  degraded farmland and turn it into an abundant fertile farm that is designed...

Our aquaponics system is now approaching its fourth year since we installed it here at Ecofilms and over the years a multitude of vegetables and fish have gone through it. Countless tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, lettuce and fish have been grown from seed and fingerling, right out to maturity to...

When we were down last month at Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Farm looking over his new emerging food forest system, we were surprised to see a normal paddock being transformed plot by plot from a field of clover into a mighty food forest system. It looked intriguing. We asked Geoff if he...

The New Zealand Government have got behind a $250,000 aid project and have built a trial aquaponics system on the Cook island of Rarotonga , located in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. Many of the Islanders have limited access to fresh water and lacked suitable soil for producing food. ...

Recently a friend was telling me about how difficult it was to grown strawberries in his aquaponics system. He didn’t have any success in growing them and was wondering if he was doing something wrong or indeed, if this aquaponics thing was over-hyped? He didn’t have a green thumb...

Here’s a great idea for a Chicken coop built to fit the dimensions of straw bales. A simple four post construction with a raised floor and tin roof is all you need. Both sides of the chicken coop have a temporary straw-bale walls that keeps the coop warm in winter and cool in summer....

  Radial Flow Settlers are a type of filter that removes all the gunk and fish poop that occurs in a recirculated aquaponics system. Handy if you have overstocked your fish tank or over-fed the fish as the water quality suddenly gets murky and is less than pristine.   How does it...