Straw bale building
Grade 9 school camp does straw bale building and building with mud bricks at the Kendall Permaculture Farm. Every year for the past few years we have been hosts to a great bunch of...
Category: Building
Building using natural, sustainable and local resources.
Video: Tom Kendall talks about his adobe floor
Tom Kendall of the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast talks about the earthen floor for his house on his property Maungaraeeda on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia. For more information on Tom’s courses, please visit http://www.permeco.org.
Our new community hub at Maungaraeeda
Zaia and Tom Kendall’s old home has now been made into the community hub of their property Maungaraeeda, home of the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast.
Video: Practical Permaculture Training with Tom Kendall
Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast shows how to consolidate your Permaculture knowledge with practical training at Maungaraeeda.
Revamping the old well
Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast talks about revamping an old water well on the Permaculture Demonstration site “Maungaraeeda”, so it can be used again to pump water into the swimming dam.
Grey water grease trap
This article describes the process of making a grey water compost worm grease trap at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast.
The compost toilet outhouse
Building an outhouse with a compost toilet and bench seat on our Permaculture property, with a view over the Permaculture kitchen garden.
Biogas project Update
Biogas project: Concreting the dome roof of the biodigester.
Biogas Project update
On the 18th of March we started our Biogas project. This project involves making a bio-digester which will turn manure into methane gas for cooking and other energy needs. Tom had to re-do some...
Biogas project at PRI Sunshine Coast
For some years now we have been looking at minimising our energy consumption, and at alternative forms of energy creation in order to produce the energy we need. As we have animal systems in...
Prepared for disaster
Disaster is a word that strikes fear into most people. We usually believe disaster is out of our control. The actual happening of the disaster may be out of our control, but how we...
