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Can I Grow This Here? Plant Selection Basics

A guide to plant selection for a perennial polyculture garden.

Time as a Sector

by Kim Deans In this special series, Kim Deans explores…

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.

Perennial vegetables in a food forest integrated with annual crops. Photo by Heather Jo Flores

100+ Perennial Vegetables for Your Permaculture Food Forest

A beginner-friendly guide to turning your annual garden into a food forest, with a list of over 100 edible perennial vegetables for a variety of climates.

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.

Herbalism and The Great Forgetting

by Matilde Magro Ever think that you might have a…

Explaining regeneration and its expansion beyond the limits of culture

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

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.

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.

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!

How to Have Difficult Conversations

How do we have difficult conversations? Any time we expect a conversation to be(come) difficult, it is because we assume that either the other person will reject what we propose or they will be hurt by what we share with them. I want to talk about the latter.

The Medicine of Making Your Own Cosmetics

I make big quantities of it because it’s really the most miraculous cream ever, and it really helps with both oily or dry skin to level out the essential oils of the skin itself. It’s also great for marks and a natural sunscreen.

Empathy For a Houseplant

The plant sat in the clearance section of a grocery store for a few dollars looking thirsty and in need of rescue

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.

Embers of Hope: Embracing Life in an Age of Ecological Destruction and Climate Chaos

The future of life on Earth is uncertain and our lifetimes are finite. Consider our own deaths as well as the possibilities of climate catastrophe.

“Design for Catastrophe” in Your Livelihood

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

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.

Musings on pandemics, food sovereignty and everyday life

What are the real costs of our current food system? How do we find food sovereignty?

Why I use permaculture for everything

an ode to the principles and processes of nature as applied to teaching and organizing my writing career

Natalie Limwatana

Chiang Mai, Thailand. Natalie is a permaculture practitioner, consultant, artist and teacher. She specializes in natural building and regenerative design in the tropics.