The Exceptional Case of Dave Jacke & Edible Forest Gardens
Dave Jacke has contributed the most comprehensive, conscious and clear treatment of sound design process yet seen in the permaculture literature.
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Neo-peasantries: from Permaculture to Permanent Agriculture
Over the coming posts I’m going to start slowly moving towards my next big theme: the practice and politics of a neo-peasant agriculture.
Urban Swales, Weeping Tiles, and Mulched Pathways, Part 1
Last year, we did a series of videos looking at the swale systems on our property and demonstration site.
Christopher Alexander’s Neglected Challenge to Permaculture
I find it curious that permaculture authors…don’t acknowledge Alexander’s critique of their core understanding of design….
Pondering Permaculture
Meanwhile, I offer you below a mere snippet of Small Farm Futurology in the form of a letter of mine recently published in Permaculture Magazine (No.88), which discourses on two themes aficionados of this site will perhaps be (wearily) familiar with, viz. my friendly scepticism towards the permaculture movement in general and perennial grain breeding in particular.
The Decline May Not be Permacultured, Part 1
In which I take a critical look at a permaculture designer’s plan for a tree lawn.
Progressive Philanthropy Needs to Spur System Change
The people developing a new parallel economy – sometimes by choice, sometimes by necessity, as in Greece and Spain – are neither politicians, CEOs or credentialed experts.
A Permaculture Guide to Choosing Cover Crops
One of my constant refrains is “Permaculture is a decision making tool for arriving at regenerative solutions.” Here I’m going to show how permaculture can help create strategies for deciding what cover crops to use.
The Turning of the Year
I’m not really sure when it feels right to talk about “the new year” in the endless cycle of life on the farm.
Community Food Production with Miriam Volat
Miriam Volat, Permaculture Skills Center’s Farm School director, speaks to her work as a facilitator, educator, and healthy food system advocate.
The Seed Within Planting the Seed
The positive side of the fragmented thinking evident in our current systems is that it results in a proliferation of points of effective action everywhere the systems are breaking down. Here we look at how the permaculture strategy of stacking functions can help us engage these opportunities.
Decolonizing Permaculture
In this article we will seek to answer the following questions: of What is decolonization? Why should permaculture designers care?