With a focus on capturing water, improving soil, and including plants that bolster the ecology and health of those who foster ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Permaculture. It’s a word that keeps popping up in garden conversations and a method increasingly adopted by new growers. This brief introduction to permaculture will explain what it is and how one ...

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, ...