Green Practices
Course on the creation of a Green Roof (date to be scheduled)
An experts on Green Roofs and Green Practices will be visiting Slà na Bandé:
- Making and installing a Green Roof
- Design and create a Green Shelter with materials from the land
- Starting the building of a pizza oven
- Lecture on ecological water cleaning
- Lecture on forest maintenance
The course will be run over 4 days and will cost €60 per day or €180 for all 4 days (price includes lunch)
Accommodation is available but not included in the course price. The course is limited to 10 people
The expert teaching the course is Raf Seghers from Belgium who had been running ecological practices for the last 20 years.
For more information about Green Roofs, please see Raf’s website –
http://www.seghersecoplant.be/english/index_english.htm
Useful Links
- Single Use Plastics: Eco-Friendly Products We Should All Be Using
- Pond Cleaning Info (Dutch Website)
- How to plant a tree (video)
- Reed Bed Installation (Dutch)
- Solar Greenhouses – Chinese style
- The Rights Of Nature – Environmental Organisation
- 9 Tons Of Vegetables Produced On One Third Of An Acre In The City
- Living Fences – How To Make A Living Fence For Your Garden
- Build Bee Hotels to Help Save Native Bees
- Let dandelions grow. Bees, beetles and birds need them
- Zero-waste grocery store with no packaging, plastic or big-name brands
- Comfrey: Its History, Uses & Benefits
- [Step-by-Step] How to Grow Morels
- Research Study (in progress): Growing Elderberries in Ditches
- The Amazing Benefits of Stinging Nettles, with Recipes
- Wonderful Wicklow Walks: OSi’s Top Picks
- The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa
- Straw Bale Construction
- Plants for Wildlife: The Borage Family
- Constitutionalize our right to a clean environment: David Suzuki
- A Visual Guide to Genetic Modification
- Ethan Roland: The 8 Forms of Capital – What permaculture can teach us about prosperity
- Phenology or Old Farmer Wisdom
- 24 Little-Known Uses For Dandelions From Baking & Pain RELIEF To Quickly Removing Warts
- How To Store Fresh Vegetables For Months – Without A Refrigerator
- Are you wondering how to start a community garden?
- ‘In reality there’s plenty of food. We just don’t know how to share it’
- 100 Steps to a Plastic-Free Life
- The Ever-Living Ones: Blackthorn, dark sister of the May.
- The Brehon laws; a legal handbook
- Making your own washing powder
- Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world (Ted Talk)
- How to make your own washing powder (.pdf Dutch)
- Drumi Food Pedal Powered Washing Machine
- Planting Water in Mexico
- Selfmade Washing Liquid
Links for Water Cleaning (Dutch)
We nemen gewoonlijk minimaal 5% van het aangesloten dakoppervlak.. vb dakoppervlak 100 m² = regenwaterfilter minimaal 5 m²…
Filterdikte: 30 cm
vrije boord 30 cm
lava is het beste filtermateriaal..
plannetje in bijlage
en zo doen we dat…
http://blog.natuurlijkemoestuin.be/wat-doet-men-zoal-op-een-workshop-waterzuivering/?awt_l=KALto
( regenwater zuivering bij het permacultuurproject Yggdrasil in Vissenaken http://www.yggdra.be/ )
Facebook pagina over remineraliseren :
https://www.facebook.com/Remineraliseer/likes
De BBC documentaire over het gebruik van mineralen ( basalt )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4co_pfmJxA
Frog Pond
