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“Every landscape on this planet achieved a balanced and sustained ecosystem. Also, on these landscapes were the homes of people with cultures based on nature’s power to supply all that was needed. Each ecosystem has its beauty, complexity, and adaptive nature. We aspired to be nature’s stewards, to emulate an adaptive spirit, and find joyful abundance in all places”. -DH
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Behind the Scenes of "High Potential": My Role as a Set Consultant
Working as a set consultant for ABC’s television show High Potential was a fascinating and challenging experience. My role was to ensure...
Daniel Halsey
Dec 29, 20243 min read
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Build Your Natural Capital
Clients of SouthWoods see real benefits, an increase in property value, and returns on investment (ROI) that our work provides: 1....
Daniel Halsey
Dec 28, 20242 min read
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Academic Track for Ecological Design
In the past, I have advised current and prospective students about their coursework and permaculture. Below is the self directed track...
Daniel Halsey
May 8, 20243 min read
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From trauma to restoration
On Halloween night in 1995 I found myself in the emergency room with a high fever for the third time in three nights. The previous two...
Daniel Halsey
May 8, 20244 min read
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Our Farms, Our Homesteads, Our Communities are all Hopefully Intentional
I have been reading Creating a Life: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities by Diana Leafe Christian. Published...
Daniel Halsey
Sep 9, 20232 min read
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Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California gets a new public garden space and food forest.
United Designers project lead and permaculture educator, Rhamis Kent partnered up with SouthWoods to design and build green space at...
Daniel Halsey
Jun 28, 20191 min read
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SE Alaska, an amazing tour of a changing wilderness.
This was the best possible way to see Alaska's South east coast. A small ship and the small group of 50 on the tour. We saw things close-up.
Daniel Halsey
Jun 28, 20190 min read
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Estuary Eco-Island in Poland
The next phase of ecological restoration is building new habitat to replace those long gone. Dredging materials from shipping lanes is...
Daniel Halsey
Jun 23, 20191 min read
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2018 La Vallée-de-Jacmel | Haiti
We were invited to participate in an evaluation visit to Haiti by Commonland and the Red Cross of the Netherlands. The Red Cross of the...
Daniel Halsey
Mar 28, 20191 min read
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2018 Aloha Aina Molokai Lands
In July 2018 I traveled to the island of Molokai Hawaii for a site assessment of the newly available land of Molokai Ranch. For sale for...
Daniel Halsey
Jan 23, 20193 min read
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Portugal 2018 Homestead Restoration
Traveling to Lisbon and then by train to the town of Oliveira de condé we spent 5 days walking the scorched land of Wim Willems near...
Daniel Halsey
Jan 30, 20182 min read
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Kebemer, Senegal May 2017
Just south of the ever encroaching Sahel desert, Kebemer was once a fertile land of small farms. Woodlands covered the the unused land...
Daniel Halsey
May 29, 20172 min read
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2017 Ecosystem Restoration Camp Spain
Early March in 2017 we gathered at La Junquera-El Servalejo near Topares, Spain. The Altiplano region of Spain is a far off and...
Daniel Halsey
Mar 29, 20172 min read
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MOSES Conferences 2013 - 16
Three days in Lacrosse, Wisconsin discussing design and seeing all my farming and permaculture friends. Probably the best educational...
Daniel Halsey
Feb 26, 20161 min read
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2012 Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey
The floods have got me remembering New Jersey a week after hurricane Sandy. Having lived with tornadoes, I had never seen the power of a...
Daniel Halsey
Nov 5, 20121 min read
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2012 Haitian Permaculture Class
One of my favorite places. Challenging, resilient, an island of survivors in an ever changing and geographically hostile environment....
Daniel Halsey
May 28, 20121 min read
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