Here’s an unusual and unique opportunity coming up locally: help install a professionally designed 5000 square-foot food forest…get hands on and learn how to transform your thirsty lawn into multi-tiered food-producing ecosystem!

In August, Daily Acts conducted a hands-on workshop in sheet-mulching to transform the lawn at Mini-Park (End of LaSalle and Loretta Ave) in [...]

West Coast Food Forestry: a Permaculture Guide is a tremendous resource for US West Coast permies…it’s a 143-page book by Rain Tenaqiya that’s available on a CD or as a PDF directly from the author, and it’s a critical reference for permies west of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountains.
The book starts with [...]

Willie Smits does permaculture…but you won’t hear him use the term at all in this TED presentation. Still, see how he’s used permaculture design principles to restore habitat for orangutans…and along the way has cared for the earth, cared for people, and shared the abundance:

Rob Hopkins at Transition Culture posted a review of this instructional video from Geoff Lawton.
Where this film really comes alive is the point when Geoff leaves the classroom and heads outdoors to introduce us to food forests at a range of stages. We see those just being started, as ground is sown with [...]