Small animal systems
Column 6 in Homegrown, Weekend Magazine, Sunshine Coast Daily, by Zaia Kendall Animals are a joy to have around! They enrich our lives in so many ways! Here on the farm we have chooks,...
Tagged: animal care
Sustainable eating
There is a lot of confusion about food and what to eat these days. A lot of people are interested in becoming more sustainable and one of the ways to do that is to...
Happy Healthy Goats
We have been running goats at the Kendall Permaculture Farm since 2006. We have learnt a lot about them since then, and through trial and error we now have a system in place which...
How we got our chooks to lay again…
Finding a connection between EMFs and hormonal symptoms, in human and animal. Going from 1 egg every 3 days to an average of 20 eggs per day, just by protecting our chooks from EMFs.
2 week grade 9 Steiner Waldorf school camp at Maungaraeeda
The grade 9 class from the Noosa Pengari Steiner Waldorf school had a 2 week permaculture school camp at Maungaraeeda. They had a electronic free 2 weeks on the land, a wonderful group of students and teachers!
WANTED: Dedicated Permaculture trainees
The Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast Inc. is looking for two dedicated, hard working Permaculture trainees, possibly for a longer term. We are offering a hands on Permaculture training experience at the Permaculture Demonstration and Education site Maungaraeeda, taught by PRI accredited teacher Tom Kendall.
Day 6 of the Permaculture Design Certificate / PDC course, afternoon jobs and surveying
On day 6 of the PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) course, students were shown hands on how to survey with different tools. We also show here the various afternoon jobs and raw banana pie for morning tea!
Day 4 of the Permaculture Design Certificate course: morning jobs and compost turning
Day 4 of the PDC course here at Maungaraeeda, today a look at the morning jobs we do with the students and compost turning.
Permaculture Design Certificate PDC course day 1
Day 1 of the Permaculture Design Certificate PDC course at Maungaraeeda, run by the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast Inc.
Early morning cow routines
The early morning cow routines at Maungaraeeda, home of Tom and Zaia Kendall and the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast are very satisfying, both due to the connections between people and cows and for the end products.
Why we do things the “hard way”
Why do we live the hard way, shovelling shit day in day out, putting up with animals dying despite looking after them well, losing crops due to erratic weather, living in an unfinished house and a multitude of other issues? We do it because we believe.
Cattle and water use
Zaia supports pasture fed beef growing as a more humane and environmentally friendly method than other “industrial” methods, and refutes the notion that beef production needs to use an excess of water.
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