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Are you interested in permaculture and seeking to enhance your knowledge? This comprehensive resource provides practical and relevant information on sustainability.

Comprehensive Eco-Farming and Gardening

This entails looking at all aspects of the farming / gardening operation and devising a plan that is “environmentally sound and economically viable”

Food Forests and Forest Gardens

Food forests have the capacity to restore health and balance to the landscape by mimicking the structure and function of forests

Integrated Forest Gardening

This book is the first, and most comprehensive, guide about plant guilds ever written, and covers in detail both what guilds are and how to design and construct them.

Watershed Management

We examine a property thoroughly and seek out opportunities for slowing down and retaining the water that flows across the landscape.

Eco-Building Design

Buildings that integrate and optimize all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficiency, durability, life-cycle performance, and occupant productivity.

Our Educational Philosophy

Permaculture is experiential and hands-on. It calls forth the skills of the entire person and builds dexterity in all areas of life, focusing on ecological and environmental well-being.

Biodynamic Gardening and Farming

When all of the organs of the farm are synchronized into a thriving biological entity in its own right, we have an overwhelmingly sound and thriving ecosystem

Whole House Agriculture

Residential

Millions of acres of dormant suburban and urban lots buried in lawn and battles with the nutritious dandelion are our greatest single opportunity to produce our needs close to home.

Biodynamic Gardening and Agriculture

It includes various esoteric concepts drawn from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925). Initially developed in 1924, it was the first of the organic agriculture movements. It treats soil fertility, plant growth, and livestock as ecologically interrelated

Sacred Measure, Number and Geometry

Through a Canon of number and proportion, geometry and measure, the laws of form which relate mind and matter are encoded into the whole fabric of culture.

The Genius of Place

Diagram of the 11 dimensions of the masterplan

We have the conscious opportunity to merge the cosmic with the terrestrial forces that course through our land, wind, water, sun, atmospheric undercurrents, planetary dynamics.

What is Permaculture?

Permaculture entails much more than just food production. Energy-efficient buildings, waste water treatment, recycling, and land stewardship.