For my new kitchen, I am using many of the same strategies and principles that I use in garden design. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and ...

The simplest explanation I can offer is this: permaculture is a design system for regenerative living and land use that ...

Cyclical Systems: "Permaculture is...an ecological design system for the creation of regenerative human habitats," says Chuck Marsh, co-founder of Earthaven. In her Southern opus Gone With the Wind, ...

Permaculture promotes sustainability and self-reliance by creating managed ecosystems—modeled on natural ones—right in our backyards. It’s “garden farming,” says Peter Bane in The Permaculture ...

A buzzword in sustainability circles, permaculture—historically combining “permanent” and “agriculture”—describes ecologically-conscious farming to create sustainable ecosystems for future generations ...

In practice, permaculture is a growing and influential movement that runs deep beneath sustainable farming and urban food gardening. You can find permaculturists setting up worm trays and bee boxes, ...

Becky Elder had been working as a gardener for some years when a friend recommended a book. “I said, ‘Oh, sounds nice, Gary.’ I handed it back to him,” Elder said. “I was a single mom, I had a ...

Pikes Peak Permaculture was founded in 2002 as an educational nonprofit, and there are now about 50 local permaculturists who live by its ethics: Care for the Earth, care for the people, share the ...