2 days workshop South of France

FAT 2017 en

Natural building design

Biodigester

Another free energy device. A bit more expensive thought. A biodigester uses organic waste and transforms it into biogas. You can then use that gas for cooking, heating and more. That device is better for medium scale usage. Won’t be that efficient for just a family. It’s fed by kitchen waste compost toilet waste, also […]

The ram pump

Do you believe in free energy? and what is free energy? Well here it’s meant in the economical point of view… The ram pump is a perfect example. It runs with NO ELECTRICITY! Not that it’s totally free, you do need to build it, but eventhough you can use recycled materials, you might have to […]

concepts of permaculture

Permaculture design emphasizes patterns of landscape, function, and species assemblies. It determines where these elements should be placed so they can provide maximum benefit to the local environment. The central concept of permaculture is maximizing useful connections between components and synergy of the final design. The focus of permaculture, therefore, is not on each separate […]

brief history of permaculture

in the 20’s In 1929, Joseph Russell Smith took up an antecedent term as the subtitle for Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture, a book in which he summed up his long experience experimenting with fruits and nuts as crops for human food and animal feed. Smith saw the world as an inter-related whole and suggested […]