Who Does What in the Soil?
By Toby Hemenway, Toby Hemenway blog
It’s time to come back to earth, and to reverse scales from the mind-bogglingly large to the infinitesimally small.
A Big Bang for Big Soil
By Toby Hemenway, Toby Hemenway blog
Where does soil come from? In keeping with the big-picture perspective of this series, let’s tackle that question from the god’s-eye perspective. We can zero in on the finer points later.
The Cosmos, the Earth, and Your Stomach: The Story of Soil
By Toby Hemenway, Pattern Literacy
When we deeply understand the system we’re working with—be it a garden, a business, a community, or even a personal relationship—we can spot the places where a small, perfectly located nudge will beget a large response.
A Permaculture Guide to Choosing Cover Crops
By Toby Hemenway, Pattern Literacy
One of my constant refrains is “Permaculture is a decision making tool for arriving at regenerative solutions.” Here I’m going to show how permaculture can help create strategies for deciding what cover crops to use.
Mats and Nets – Patterns from the Dunes
By Toby Hemenway, Pattern Literacy
Smothered beneath the dunes that blanket 150 miles of the Oregon coast are ancient, dead forests. Yet on these same dunes, the crumbling of delicate mosses and lichens on naked sand builds new soil, launching new forests.
Becoming Pattern Literate
By Toby Hemenway, Pattern Literacy
The word “pattern” takes us over a vast territory.
Flowing Towards Abundance
By Toby Hemenway, Pattern Literachy
It’s flow, dynamic and well-channeled, that keeps any system running.
Finding the Land that’s Right for You
By Toby Hemenway, Pattern Literacy
At some point almost every permaculturist thinks about getting onto a piece of land.