Understand and apply the principles at the heart of permaculture design and you'll make your garden more productive and sustainable. The simple techniques and ideas at the heart of this design ethos ...

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 ...

Work with nature, not against it, by starting your own sustainable permaculture garden. Check out these expert tips and strategies anyone can follow.

Most Americans have never heard of permaculture. And although the approach is gaining traction among U.S. urbanites (full disclosure: I teach urban permaculture), ideas differ about exactly what it is ...

I can still remember my first encounter with the term “permaculture.” It was a Plowboy interview with Bill Mollison in MOTHER EARTH NEWS in 1980. I remember well how the ideas resonated with me, and I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...