Graham Whiting of Whiting Design has been working on a Passive House design for a family of permaculture farmers south of Guelph, Ontario. TreeHugger Sami has written a lot about Permaculture, and ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. If you ...

Paradise Lot (Chelsea Green, 2013) tells the story of Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates turning the barren and run-down tenth-of-an-acre lot behind their duplex into what is not just another urban ...

In my ongoing quest to learn everything I can about gardening as part of our Million Gardens Movement, I recently encountered a fascinating thing: urban permaculture. Australian academics Bill ...

Permaculture has been a hot topic slipping off the world’s tongue for the past decade. Most individuals have a difficult time expressing the true meaning of permaculture and how it applies directly to ...

Limestone raised beds and a mandala-designed food forest honor resourceful permaculture tenets. Framed by historic live oak trees in cozy Lockhart, limestone raised beds and a mandala-designed food ...

As we close in on an early growing season, my social media feeds are filling up with conflicting, oftentimes alarming posts claiming absolute truths about the right and wrong ways to grow and harvest ...

As the year draws to a close, I look back and ahead in equal measure, to evaluate my world and sphere of influence and make plans for the future. The lens through which I observe my progress as a ...

“Permaculture” is a word that has steadily grown in our global vocabulary since it was coined in the 1980s by Australian environmentalist Bill Mollison. He defined it as the harmonious integration of ...