Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Permaculture table at Maker Faire, and a huge thanks to Aliza from Baltimore DIY Squad for traveling cross-country to help spread the word about permaculture! I really enjoyed talking with everyone, and especially to meet regular Permie.net readers and subscribers. Wow!
We got a number of [...]

In this six-minute video, Brock Dolman explains how native bunch grasses do more than provide nutrition for grazing animals: they also help sequester carbon, store water, and build the soil.

Brock is an extraordinary teacher from the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and the director of Water Institute. He’ll be teaching a Permaculture Design Course [...]

It’s so heartening to see this kind of op-ed published in the New York Times: A 50-Year Farm Bill. Jackson and Berry really distill a number of key points in an eloquent call for change to our national food system:
Industrial agricultural has made our food supply entirely dependent on fossil fuels and, by substituting [...]