Permaculture Resource List
General Information
- Tagari Publications – Bill Mollison’s permaculture publishing company; also the place to apply for a diploma after you’ve taken a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) and tracked your related work for two years.
- Permaculture Principles – David Holmgren’s site; excellent for getting a grasp of the conceptual underpinnings of permacutlure.
- Wikipedia on Permaculture – full of good links.
- Permie.net posts tagged “introduction” – a list of especially good introductory content on this site.
Books
- Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
– possibly the best how-to book on getting started with permaculture in you own home.
- Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
– very recent book by David Holgren; an essential introduction to the subject.
- Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual
– THE textbook on permaculture design, by Bill Mollison.
- One-straw Revolution
by Masanobu Fukuoka – a seminal text; written decades ago but still considered a must-read text.
- Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources
Directories, Publications, Portals
- Permaculture Activist, – magazine and web portal, published in the US.
- Permaculture Magazine – published in the UK
Institutes and Training Centers
- Regenerative Design Institute – in Bolinas, CA – where I did a two-week intensive PDC
- Occidental Arts and Ecology Center – also in Northern California, a site I’ve visited and volunteered at frequently
- Permaculture Institute (based in Santa Fe, New Mexico)
- Permaculture Research Institute of Austrailia
- A list of institutes from Permaculture Activist


