

Climate Change
Can permaculture help with climate change? It sure can! Here’s a collection of articles about the practical, political, and philosophical aspects of adapting to a changing climate.


The role of the farmer in a thriving agro-ecological system

Rights of Nature

Marina Nobre: Reforestation is more than planting trees.

Women Who Ask, Women Who Listen: Social Permaculture and Laying Stones for Peace

Caring for (More-than-Natal) Kin in Times of Loss

Empathy For a Houseplant

Embers of Hope: Embracing Life in an Age of Ecological Destruction and Climate Chaos

“Design for Catastrophe” in Your Livelihood

Buddhist Meditation and Regenerative Culture
By Dido Dunlop Our hearts and outer world grow hearty together To restore Mother Nature, and grow tomatoes in our cities, we must redesign our inner…

A Simple Meditation for Pandemic, Climate Emergency and Other Disasters
By Dido Dunlop In times like now, our emotional strength and resilience can feel drained away. It can seem like our inner resources are not…

16 Best Edible Perennials to Plant Now

Finding Permaculture in Iran

How to Learn Permaculture for Free

10 Benefits of having a greenhouse
they’re easier to build than you might think By Heather Jo Flores Ten reasons to build a greenhouse: Start seeds early (and late!) Many seeds need…

How to grow tomatoes in a temperate climate
By Heather Jo Flores Tips for cloudy skies tomato gardeners In a foggy, temperate climate, most of us know the drill: Start seeds indoors in…

Big yields From a Small Garden: Growing Food in Small Spaces
There are plenty of good reasons to develop a skill set for growing food in small spaces. By Heather Jo Flores There are plenty of good…

Bring us a Shrubbery! Best plants for edible hedges
A baker’s dozen of easy to grow and disease-resistant perennial hedge plants. By Heather Jo Flores No garden is complete without a yummy patch of edible,…

Do you want to teach permaculture? Here’s what you need to know.

If You Guild It, They Will Come: How to Grow a Permaculture Food Forest

Mulch Much? The Benefits of Mulching
By Heather Jo Flores It’s always a good day for mulching your garden! Mulch builds humus. The word “human” comes from the same roots as humus,…

Having kids in a climate crisis: can you do it? I’m too scared
By Gudrun Cartwright As always, I was fascinated by what happened in Davos this year. If not necessarily encouraged. Donald Trump criticised climate ’prophets of…

Growing Food and Medicine: The Good, The Bad and The Heartbreak

Small-scale farmers — not lab-based foods — can help save the planet

Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Planning

Ecotopia? Other worlds are possible but only through struggle
By Becky Ellis The 2020s are going to be about struggle but if we do it right, it will be collective and (mostly) joyful Everyone who…

Planting Trees to Feed Future Generations

Cold hardy figs and why you should grow them
Delicious, drought-tolerant, easy to grow…what’s not to love? by Heather Jo Flores I can’t stop eating them. There’s a fig tree at the place where I…

Honoring the Slope of the Land, with Keylines and Contour

Re-thinking the Scale of Permanence

Calling Generation X: is it up to us to save the planet?
By Gudrun Cartwright Will Generation X please stand up? It is time for us to own our power and create a world that works for…

Emergent Herbalism; plants, people, and culture

How to Compost Your Pain
By Dido Dunlop (part of a talk at our New Zealand Permaculture gathering 2015, exploring how we can apply Nature’s ecosystems model to human relationships,…

We are the ones we are been waiting for
By Gudrun Cartwright I was born in 1972. This means, that by any stretch of the imagination, I am halfway through my life now. Depending…

Book Review: Water in Plain Sight by Judith D Schwartz
