
Permaculture Design Certificate Course – UPDATE
This past weekend, Permaculture course participants studied Natural Building and Passive Solar Energy at the Ecosystem Farm in Piscataway Park. Activities included building a cold frame and a worm bin, covering a hoop house, planting cover crops at our Persimmon guild and making Biochar, an ancient soil amendment. Loose brush is burned inside a homemade furnace and removed before being buried. Biochar Biochar is a kind of charcoal, which converts agricultural waste, or in th