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Homes Produce Yields

Let’s chat about some of the different yields we can get from our homes from an architecture and permaculture perspective.

Improvements for a Permaculture Home

How about more permaculture oriented changes to make a more permaculture home? How about a few more creative ideas we can use for our zonezero:
-enhanced kitchen space
-workshop space
-natural ventilation
-furniture layout
-avoid bottlenecks

Making Architecture more Permaculture

It is about time that we saw our homes shift to the ideas that are driving us. We need these homes to catch up to the inspired food forested land that we are designing to support the lifestyles and purposes we want to have.

A Corner Stone Concept: Empowering DIY Homes

I have been mulling over the design for a concept permaculture home for the last few months. I’ve done so initially to have a good basis of design that I can locate onto a site, with most of the problems of a home solved, most of the solutions included- then I can edit it toContinue reading “A Corner Stone Concept: Empowering DIY Homes”

Why America is Not Building Forever Homes anymore

A Forever Home – one where a family puts down roots, builds their lives together and the kids come to visit mom and dad when they are old. Family memories are etched on the door frames, a tree house the kids built with their dad or the kids’ bedrooms still set aside for when they visit. At the pace we move homes nowadays, these Forever Homes are a rarity, most particularly in the cities.