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 ...

Master Gardener training whetted my appetite to learn more about plants and the best way to grow things. Like so many learning experiences, the predominant thing I learned was how much I didn’t know.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Permaculture” is a word that has steadily grown in our global vocabulary since it was coined in the 1980s by Australian environmentalist Bill Mollison. He defined it as the harmonious integration of ...

My family reminded me recently that, permaculture remains a mystery to some readers. Indeed, it can bewilder. The simplest explanation I can offer is this: permaculture is a design system for ...