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Landscape Architecture: What, Why, How, WOW!
The Most Important Profession For The Future Of Humanity?
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11 Years In 260 Sq. Feet: How A Tiny House Changed My Life
The Journey, Lessons, & Opportunity To Try Tiny Home Living
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Making Nature School on 10 Acres: Why, How, WOW!
How Deanne turned her farm into a Nature School where kids grow food, care for animals, and reconnect with the land. Here’s how Permaculture helped ...
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Inspiring Family Turns Property Into Food
A family transforms their property into food. Here is how they did it step-by-step + the photos and videos of it more than 14 years ...
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A Father’s Legacy: Building a Retreat Centre for Family, Friends, and Community
Many retreat centers begin with a business plan. This one began with a family.
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How We Built a Herb Spiral Garden at an Acreage (And Why You’ll Want One Too)
Discover how we built a herb spiral garden at a family cottage. Learn why herb spirals are perfect for cabins, acreages, and permaculture design.
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Waldorf School Gains Permaculture Landscape
How A Community Turned A Schoolyard Into A Outdoor Classroom & Edible Ecosystem
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A Tiny House Permaculture Community
Welcome to "Big Calm" - A community where you’re allowed a tiny house. Here is the story of our visit and how you can get ...
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Living Big In A Tiny House While Saving The World
Kenton Zerbin’s Climate-Smart Talk at Edmonton’s "Change for Climate" Series
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The Ultimate DIY Mapping Tool?
Interested in having a map of your property? I have a simple DIY mapping tool for you. Last month I made an adventure map for ...
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Make Money Healing People & Land
Have you ever dreamed of owning a property that was both: (a) Financially AND (b) environmentally sustainable? Who doesn’t? We are talking about making $ ...
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Permaculture Consultant: 3 Types Of Clients
As a permaculture consultant, I find there are 3 types of clients that I help the most. Here are the 3 and how I help ...
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How To Build A Tiny House For Free
In the last 2 articles, I shared my biggest life lesson: “Ask and you shall receive.” I used this lesson to: Build MY tiny house ...
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How To Find Your Partner – My Biggest Life Lesson Part 2
“Ask and you shall receive.” This is the greatest life lesson I have learned. Last blog post, I shared how I applied this lesson to ...
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How To Get A Home – My Biggest Life Lesson Part 1
“Ask and you shall receive.” Hands down, this is the greatest life lesson I have received. I’m going to give you 4 personal examples. The ...
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How Does Permaculture Work?
I am writing to you from Quebec City Airport.I just finished setting up a client and their new property. I want to tell you how ...
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Family Starts Permaculture Property
Last weekend I flew to a client’s property. They just bought their dream property. 60+ acres with incredible income potential. In this week’s blog post, ...
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Inspiring Acreage Uses Permaculture To Create Income
Is it possible to make money AND heal the earth? Heck yeah! I want to introduce you to one of my favourite clients – Deniz. ...
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Making Paradise: A Guide
How do you make Paradise? Water. In this article, I am going to give you two things: Education. Tips so you can create paradise. Inspiration. ...
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Rainwater 101
In this article, we are going to cover the basics of rainwater. First, we will talk 5 ways water can work for you. (Instead of ...
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Introducing Tiny House Builder “Stattonrock Simply Living”
Welcome to the monthly blog post where I share my community with you. I believe we all need more community in our lives. To become ...
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Zone Zero. The Secret of Sustainability.
Welcome to the “Secrets of Sustainability” article series. In today’s article, I want to share with you the elusive “Secret of Zone 0”. Before we ...
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The #1 Way To Improve Your Home & Property
In Permaculture design, we divide the world outside our house into 5 zones. Why is it the #1 recommendation I have for improving your property? ...
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Why The Solstice is So Important + 3 Tips To Improve Your Life
It’s Dec 22, 2022, in Edmonton, AB, Canada. And it’s -39C outside! I am writing this from my tiny house loft. Blankets piled up. Coffee ...
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How To Grow Food In The City
How do you grow food in the city? It’s not as hard as you might think. As a teacher of edible landscaping, here is my ...
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5 Types Of Sustainable Homeowners
In my 12 years in the field of design and consultation, I have noticed a pattern… Over 90% of my clients fall into 5 groups. ...
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Sustainable Design For Homeowners
In this post here is what we are going to cover: The Perfect Property? 5 Types Of Homeowners The Consultation Process THE PERFECT PROPERTY? ...
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7 Short Films To Warm Your Heart (Nature Focused)
Last blog post, I invited you to a night of short films… held in a food forest! It was a special night. Movies. Food. Fuzzy ...
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Community Event in a Food Forest #1
Imagine this: Being on a fuzzy blanket under the stars (with your fav snack of course) With good people sitting in the middle of a ...
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How to Live MORE With Less In 2022
Let’s be honest… The last few years have not been easy. (“Character building” as grandma would say.) Everyone has had to find ways to stay ...
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Is Off-Grid Living For You?
Having lived in our off-grid tiny house since March 2017, I have definitely learned the ins-and-outs, and the pros and cons, of off-grid living. In ...
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Your Craving For (True) Community Explained
It was 2015 when I found the answer to why you and I crave community. When you think of the word “community”, you likely get ...
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3 Ways To Obtain A Tiny House
As more and more people fall in love with the tiny house movement, many are people are asking – how do I get one? There ...
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What is Permaculture Design Anyways?
In this article I am going to share with you insight into what Permaculture means, and how as a design science, it is powerfully exciting ...
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Forgotten Wisdom – Poop
Yep, you read that title correctly. Today we are going to talk about the forgotten wisdom around POOP. I will unavoidably (and intentionally) smear some ...
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Edible School Yards for Edmonton
If you know of me and the local and international work I do, you know I am all about inspiring people and showing how humans ...
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13 Types of Tiny House People
As a teacher of tiny house living, designing, and building, I have had the opportunity to witness Tiny House People in their natural environment… While ...
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The Reasons I Live in a Tiny House and Why You Might Want to Join Me
When I tell people that I designed, built, and live in a tiny house I get one of two responses…. “AWESOME!!” or “…why?” There are ...
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How to Help Your Family & Friends Go Green
Family and friends can be the hardest people to change. Once you start to make big changes in your life to live sustainably, it’s hard ...
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