Urban Permaculture · Permaculture Women Magazine

Growing Urban Community Resilience Gardens in Los Angeles

by Devorah Brous I’ve been working with faith-institutions since 2011 to repurpose vacant institutional land into edible gardens and orchards to foster healthy, water-wise environments…

Spiritual gardening, the way out of suffering.

Ever walked along a Chinese garden, public or private, urban or rural? It’s interesting maybe for you to know that if you did, it taught…

Hierarchies vs Networks

Governments vs people power, hierarchies vs networks and response to crisis.

Growing vegetables from Seed

5 tips for growing vegetables from seed successfully

Cuando el ecosistema natural ya no existe

Notas desde La Pampa, Argentina By Rosaura Ruiz Hace más de un año, casi en otra vida, me encontraba ante un viejo Atlas recuperado de…

Creativity and Parenting

How to reconcile creativity and parenting

12 Ways To Use Permaculture In Your Daily Life

It might not be obvious how to use permaculture in your daily life, but this article will show you how.

Gaining Ground: 8 places to grow food if you don’t have access to land

For people who have their own yard, starting a garden is easy. But for those who don’t have easy access to land, starting a garden takes a little more effort.

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…

Top 20+ Best Permaculture Books by Women

A curated collection of top-notch permaculture books by women you might not have heard about.

Green Tara, The Ecofeminist Goddess, Shows Us How To Embody Regenerative Culture

By Dido Dunlop Green Tara is a role model, to become a wise woman, and live in an ecofeminist way. Many of us who are…

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…

Lasagna Gardening 101

What is Lasagna Gardening? How to build a “lazy garden” in 3 easy steps.

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

Learn how to use keylines and contour to work with the slope of the land.

Writing to get my mojo back

By Gudrun Cartwright Today I need to write. For the last few weeks I have been consumed with work. I have written for that purpose,…

On people care, cultural emergence and the mindset of abundance — a conversation with Looby Macnamara

The problems we have with Earth care really stem from the people care side of things

What is Rewilding? Here’s another view

What is Rewilding? Is rewilding a way of off-setting normal life?

Why my farm isn’t a “Permaculture Farm”

As we integrate into living, working farm communities, it’s important to remember that a permaculture farm is not a new idea.

Permies of the world unite!

A manifesto for an internationalist permaculture movement By Becky Ellis Migration, the movement of people over landscapes, is, arguably, one of the defining characteristics of…

How to grow a pollinator garden

Need to attract a more diverse group of insects and pollinators? Here's how to grow a pollinator garden.

On placemaking, true diversity and intercontinental cross-pollination — a conversation with Ridhi D’Cruz

The art of placemaking, regenerating public spaces.

Thank-you India

A report back from the International Permaculture Conference and Convergence in Hyderabad, India. By Becky Ellis In November 2017, I had the amazing experience of…

Permaculture sector analysis: identifying risks and designing solutions

Permaculture sector analysis is about designing the world we want while acknowledging the realities of the world we live in.

Suburban Permaculture

How I learned to bloom where I was planted (or, rather, where I planted myself) with suburban permaculture.

Permaculture Design: Outside the Box…and Into Nature

Get unstuck and wild with your own permaculture design

Decolonizing seeds and the feminine side of things — a conversation with Rowen White

Decolonizing seeds and protecting diversity in the seed sovereignty movement.

Women in Permaculture: Why should you learn permaculture from women?

By Silvia Di Blasio “I raise up my voice — not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed…

Strategies for urban land access

Urban land access can be difficult but there are ways to get past this barrier.

On urban permaculture, eco-activism and co-creation of space with non-human animals — a conversation with Becky Ellis

Urban permaculture is possible even without owning private property or large amounts of land.

On permaculture, entitlement, and that pesky third ethic: all aboard the elephant in the room

By Heather Jo Flores “Contact with the soil reminds us that we are an integral part of nature, rather than feeling shut out and excluded.…

Send a Care Bear Stare: Progressives & Permaculture in the Rural Heartland

Finding permaculture in America.

Worm Composting for Beginners

A beginner’s guide to worm composting

Finding Home

Microclimate, finding home & a sense of place

urban sustainability: creating a regenerative city

Urban sustainability and the possibilities of urban permaculture

Problem is the solution: keeping it simple

We’ve now gone so far beyond what is appropriate for our culture, for our health, and for the planet that it is time to bring technology back to scale. The problem is the solution.