“Getting paying clients is the key to starting your own permaculture design business; Everything else is secondary.” – Pete Widin I wish I’d been told this when I was in school, about to enter the REAL world as a tender would-be landscape architect. My idea of a design business was the day to day mess […]
How to Quit Your Job, Start a Permaculture Farm and Get Paid to Change the World
After all, that’s the dream, right? Forget the well-paid 9-to-5 job, six bedroom house and the other trappings of material wealth. Sure, it’s nice to have them, but we permaculturists know that real wealth is clean air, clear water and healthy nutritious food, not piling up stuff and then dying with it. We want to […]
Creating a Food Forest – Step by Step Guide
One of my earliest memories of visiting my grandparents’ farm was playing on the dry stone wall, tossing stones around and just generally fooling around. Then, looking down, I came across a small seedling sticking out the side of the wall, growing in nothing, with barely any soil between the stones. Out of childish curiosity […]
Water Management For Every Permaculture Farm
When I was a kid, my brother and I used to enjoy the winter weather at my grandparents’ farm in the mountains. In a beautiful interplay of natural forces, throughout the winter and early spring we would play in half a meter of snow, walk on frozen lakes and then run from the floodwaters once […]