Permaculture musings

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

So don’t go by the book. Go by the garden. Learn what is there and how it fits into its community. Then fit yourself into that community.

From a Dystopian Present to a Gaian Future

By Tom Ellis, Gaianism

So…imagine that somewhere, or in many places at once, a self-replicating Gaia movement were to start, whose adherents call ourselves, simply, “Gaians.”

Vanishing crop varieties, permaculture and food forestry benefits, and three sisters gardening

By Jeremiah Castelo, World Water Reserve

By collaborating with our community members and fellow growers, and sharing a variety of crops throughout the landscape, the diversity of food will expand beyond what we’d be able to manage singlehandedly.

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 48 Penny Livingston-Stark

By Vicki Robin, Penny Livingston-Stark, Resilience.org

Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

Tyson Yunkaporta on permaculture, systems thinking & the pattern of creation

By Dan Palmer, Making Permaculture Stronger

Permaculture isn’t a form of gardening – it’s a method of inquiry about relationships – that’s all it is. And it’s awesome and in that way it’s similar to traditional ecological knowledge from all over the planet and it’s a constantly shifting evolving body of knowledge too, that’s never the same in the same place twice. Love it!

Resources for a better future: Permaculture

By Rebecca Ellis, Uneven Earth

Permaculture has transformative potential when practitioners move away from promoting it as a depoliticized set of ecological design practices and principles.

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 30 Starhawk

By Vicki Robin, Starhawk, Resilience.org

Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, founder of Earth Activist Training, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?

Whitewashed Hope

By 10+ indigenous authors, Indigenous World Views

While the practices 'sustainable farming' promote are important, they do not encompass the deep cultural and relational changes needed to realize our collective healing.

Can changing habits for self-reliance and resilience help society avoid the worst of unfortunate futures?

By David Holmgren, Holmgren Design

Retrosuburbia provides the patterns and models that need to be replicated across our residential heartlands to achieve a scale of impact.

How Permaculture can Build Resilience and Meet Basic Needs During a Pandemic

By Marina Martinez, Waging Nonviolence

Permaculture — a fusion of indigenous knowledge with modern science and technology — offers ways for people to meet their essential needs for food, water, sanitation and other non-material needs, with autonomy and harmony with nature.

The Problem is the Solution: how Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation can Lead to RetroSuburbia

By David Holmgren

A home-based lifestyle of self-reliance, minimal and slow travel does not provide protection against getting a virus as infectious as COVID-19, but it provides a base for social distancing and isolation that is stimulating and healthy rather than a place of detention.

Q&A with Regi Haslett-Marroquin on The True Cost of Food: The Bill Is Already in the Mail

By Christine Grillo, John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

Working with the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance in Minnesota, Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin is the architect and engineer behind the regenerative poultry system, one of many farm operations at the 100-acre farm in Northfield, through the Main Street Project. His approach to regenerative agriculture involves a biodiverse system of symbiotically connected livestock and perennials, with no chemical inputs, building soil, cleaning water and delivering economic benefits to the community.