Permaculture Women Writers

Can I Grow This Here? Plant Selection Basics

A guide to plant selection for a perennial polyculture garden.

How to Make Your Garden More Accessible

A straightforward way to think through accessibility in your garden and plan improvements.

Kelda Lorax

Oklahoma, USA. Kelda is a PINA diplomat and trains next generation Permaculture leaders. She has a wide experience with designs, teams, and projects. She also sells veggies and medicinal herbs from her small food forest.

Lucie Bardos

Kelowna, Canada. Lucie is a community project consultant, educator, course facilitator, and artist.

Kareen Erbe

Montana, USA. Kareen owns Broken Ground, a permaculture education and design business that teaches people how to grow their own food and become more self-reliant.

Meiling Colorado

Mallorca, Spain. Meiling has studied and taught permaculture in a diversity of settings. Her new book, Aftermath, was published this Spring.

Silvia DiBlasio

Vancouver, Canada. Silvia specializes in inner and social permaculture and is also a passionate practitioner, instructor and advocate for food sovereignty and disaster preparedness/planning.

Mandy Merklein

Mallorca, Spain. Mandy studied permaculture since 1982 and is a founding and active member of Permacultura Mediterranea, Youth in Permaculture, Gaia Youth, Community and Ecology Resources, and Escola Kumar.

Marit Parker

Wales, UK. Marit Parker has been learning about permaculture for over 25 years, and applying it not just to gardening and farming but also in her work tackling inequalities and social exclusion, in particular with people with disabilities and learning difficulties.

What is a Permaculture Design Certificate and is it worth a big investment? Top 10 PDC FAQ’s

Everything you need to know about choosing a Permaculture Design Certificate program, or not.

Start Where You are: Discovery at Zone 00

In times when you feel overrun by forces outside of your control, contemplating and designing the life you want to live is important self-care.

Teachings of the Thistle

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

Regenerating Our Reality through Circular Economy

Circular economy is not just a big concept for governments and economists, but something real that we can immediately put into practice as individuals.

Herbalism and The Great Forgetting

by Matilde Magro Ever think that you might have a…

Integrated Pest Management Strategies for Garden Pests & Diseases

Invest in natural solutions for garden pests and diseases.

Explaining regeneration and its expansion beyond the limits of culture

by Matilde Magro There are social, ecological, and spiritual structures…

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

A critical exploration of the concepts of balance and self-sustenance as applied in permaculture and ecological agriculture.

Rights of Nature

If I had to write the rights of Nature, I’d include these.

Marina Nobre: Reforestation is more than planting trees.

The seed knows what it does and how it does it.

Foremother: A review of Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Imagining a Permaculture life in 1916

Life in symphony

What’s an ecosystem?

When we don’t know enough, what good does opinion do?

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance" --Plato

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?

The garden in the mind, your mind on your garden

Education and gradual friendly change is more way effective than division.

Community Building: Social and Spiritual Permaculture for Intentional Communities and Transition Towns

Our ecovillage set up ‘invisible structures’, to build a strong community, to work together well, from practical land care to our deepest vision.

My Permaculture Wealth Building Journey

Permaculture offers a rich toolkit for designing for holistic abundance not only in our landscapes, but our personal finances as well.

And then there is food.

Food and water are the baselines of every culture. We will neglect every single thing good about any culture until we understand why people eat and how they eat, and how passed down from generations and generations the “question of food” really is. There is no healing at all until one heals its relationship with food.

How to get started with zone 00 design? My experience with designing my inner landscape

This article is the second of a series about designing for your inner landscape | you can read the first part there: What is zone 00 design and why should you start yours?!

Why It Is So Hard To Love Ourselves

When we struggle with frustrations, overwhelm, anger, anxiety, our family members or keeping our socks together in pairs, there is this one advice we hear often:

Sowing Ideas

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

Poetics of communication

There’s an issue that needs addressing, like a PO-box of understanding, of enthusiastically awaiting new mail to arrive, like the birds of yesterday in harmonic screeches of today’s fairy tales.

Opening a heartfelt dialogue with life - A film review of Into The Soil

A timely film about how we share food, care for our land and value the lives of everyone around us.

Questioning role-models

I think some of us have given up on trying to reach remaining humans outside of our bubbles.

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.