Permaculture Design Ideas

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.

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!

Applying Graphic Design Principles to Social Permaculture

In working on a specific part of a social design I realized there is no way to design something in which a considered minority is excluded.

“Design for Catastrophe” in Your Livelihood

How to become more resilient by preparing for when the crap hits the fan

Integrity dynamics

Integrity dynamics and identity

A Design Cycle Application: GOBRADIMET

Sample design description and activity worksheet for GOBRADIMET.

Abundance Mindset, Scarcity Mindset

Are you able to approach life with an abundance mindset?

5 Reasons You Should Take this Online Permaculture Design Course

Best online permaculture course for women and by women

Gardening Diversity in Our Lives and Our Communities

Gardening diversity is essential for balance and harmony, as is diversity in our lives.

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.

How to Learn Permaculture for Free

A hands-on guide for the frugal beginner to learn permaculture without spending any money.

organic garden vs permaculture garden graphic by Heather Jo Flores 1

What is permaculture? A definitive FAQ for newbie permies in 2023 (with awesome illustrations!)

What is permaculture? Here's an expansive Permaculture FAQ with a collection of helpful links to help you on your permaculture learning journey.

Front Yard Gardens: Rules for Growing Food Out Front

So you want to turn your lawn into a front yard garden? Here’s how to stay friends with the neighbors.

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.

If You Guild It, They Will Come: How to Grow a Permaculture Food Forest

group plants together for specific reasons, encourage them to spread into permanent, self-managing landscapes

Top 20+ Best Permaculture Books by Women

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

Ecofeminism and Permaculture

Personal and world transformation with ecofeminism and permaculture.

How can our we create regenerative livelihoods?

What would a regenerative livelihood look like to you?

Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Planning

Permaculture path to resilience and disaster preparedness.

Chicken shed dilemmas! Mistakes are tools for learning…

If the fox is getting too much to eat then it's time for a chicken shed.

Book Review: Think Like a Tree by Sarah Spencer

A newbook about the life lessons we can learn from trees. Think Like a Tree by Sarah Spencer book review.

Dry stone walls are a significant part of the landscape in many parts of the world. They are built in places where there are plenty of stones nearby, and where trees don’t thrive well enough to create hedges or to provide materials for fencing.