Popular Permaculture Articles

Teachings of the Thistle

An exploration of an alternative view on a common perennial weed: approaching with curiosity, gratitude and a sense of reciprocity.

Growing Old With Permaculture

How much thought have you given to aging? Using the permaculture design process, consider creating a plan for your elder years.

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

Does permaculture have what it takes to evolve?

A Manifest for the Embodiment of Imperfection

We all want to become better, fitter, happier. As long as we believe in guilt and shame, though, self-improvement is bound to make us suffer.

Sowing Ideas

A perspective on how to care for the nature and the biodiversity within and around us.

Caeona Murdoch

Mayne Island, British Columbia, Canada

What is zone 00 design and why should you start yours?!

I don’t know you, but for me, reading self-development books has always been intensely frustrating.

What Indigenous spiritual knowledge can teach us about regenerative design

Native stories about natural spirits which comprise the reality of things can help us a lot in thinking in regenerative terms.

Social Permaculture: Language and its barriers to understanding

We, humans, invented language to name things to understand them by expanding on their meaning, but my proposal is that right now it hinders our understanding of things more than it helps. Particularly language that it’s either too formal or too loose in terms of meaning and understanding.

Lessons From A Tree: Living and Creating With Earth As Play

Am I done with choosing struggle? What would it be like to navigate the unknown with play? This is the story of how a tree showed me a way.

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…

Permaculture For Renters

If you live in the city, that doesn’t mean you can’t grow your own fruits and veggies! By using a few simple strategies, you can enjoy fresh homegrown fruits and veggies, year round.

Permaculture in the City: a sampler of inspiring urban agriculture projects

10 urban gardens that will inspire you to grow food no matter where you live

Demystifying The Permaculture Base Map

One of the most common sticking points for permaculture students is the base map, so let's take care of that right now!

Botany for Everyone

Aside from the bean growing experiments in primary school and the occasional plant part identification ditto sheet, many of us have not had any formal botanical education in botany.

The Art Of Dying Creatively

Dying Creatively: Using permaculture design to improve how we die

We can do better: Resources and Options for Solidarity with Queer people in permaculture.

Resources for the queer people in permaculture

Tales from the Underground: types of root vegetables to grow

How many types of root vegetables do you grow?

5 Reasons You Should Take this Online Permaculture Design Course

Best online permaculture course for women and by women

How to grow garlic

tips and tricks for growing gorgeous organic garlic

How to build organic garden soil

Learn from my example how to build organic garden soil.

Archetypes and the power to transform

By Priya Logan I previously wrote a post about identifying and even celebrating your “inputs and outputs”, as a human that is a complicated, sometimes…

Plants as friends and family members

Reclaiming our sense of belonging. By Luiza Oliveira Looking at the many roots from my multi-racial family, I realized that most of my family background…

How to make Sauerkraut: the Gateway to Home Ferments

All you need is cabbage, salt, and to remember a few important details

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…

Hierarchies vs Networks

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

Strength and Resistance à la Woman

Learning a new way of living from an elder Iranian farmer By Kali Morgan Of late, I have been consumed by the stories of strong, bold,…

Permaculture Ethics in Public Education

Using permaculture ethics in public education to engage children in sustainable efforts.

Growing vegetables from Seed

5 tips for growing vegetables from seed successfully

It’s not enough to be an environmentalist. We must be anti-racist environmentalists.

Racism and climate change are linked in many ways. We must be anti-racist environmentalists.

Benefits of Prunella Vulgaris: Self heal, the wonder weed

Learn the benefits of Prunella Vulgaris. Self heal, heal-all, woundwort, heart-of-the-earth, carpenter’s herb, brownwort and blue curls are just some of the names this flower go by.

The life of a stinging nettle in a permaculture garden

Stinging nettle plays an important part in permaculture.

16 Best Edible Perennials to Plant Now

Sure wins & long shot edible perennials for aspiring “lazy gardeners”

To Bamboo or Not to Bamboo, and is there such a thing as non-spreading bamboo?

By Heather Jo Flores I recently received an interesting question from a reader,and it seemed like a great topic for this month’s column. She writes:“I…