Southeastern Permaculture Links
Local Organizations
- Arthur Morgan School - a safe and loving environment where 27 day and boarding school students in grades 7, 8 and 9 learn to question and evaluate, think creatively and work cooperatively.
- Sustainable WNC - Gateway to Sustainability in Western North Carolina
- Sustainable Asheville - Listing of local groups and organizations that are working on different aspects of sustainability
- Georgia Permaculture - Informatin and calendar of events of Permaculture activities in Georgia and the Southeast US.
- Knoxville Permaculture Guild - Knoxvillians coming together to learn, share, and apply permaculture design in their homes, yards and neighborhoods.
Classes and Events
- Culture's Edge at Earthaven Ecovillage - Listings of classes and events at Earthaven
- Patricia Allison's Permaculture Training - Classes in WNC and Georgia
- Ashevillage Institute - promotes urban sustainability through sustainability workshops, an eco-demonstration center, community outreach, and educational documentation & presentations
Permaculture Basics
- Permaculture Principles - his site explores the 'essence of permaculture' in a simple and clear way, expanding on the work of co-originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren.
- Permaculture Research Institute of Australia - a global networking centre for permaculture projects.
- Wikipedia: Permaculture - Large resource of information on permaculture
- Introduction to Permaculture: Concepts and Resources - from ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
- 8 Page Intro to Permaculture Basics - an introductory text from the Georgia Permaculture site
Urban Permaculture
- Path to Freedom - An urban homestead in Los Angeles "pioneering a journey towards self sufficiency, one step at a time."
- Urban Permaculture Guild - works for peace, environmental protection, social justice, and the development of healthy communities.
- The Urbiculture Foundation - Facilitating regenerative partnerships with individuals, non-profits, government & business.
- Urban Permaculture Videos
Plants
- Mountain Gardens - a botanical garden featuring the largest collection of native Appalachian and Chinese medicinal herbs in the Eastern US in Western North Carolina.
- Useful Plants Nursery - a small, permaculture-based nursery specializing in useful, phytonutritional, food, and medicine plants well-adapted to our Southern Appalachian mountains and surrounding bioregions.
- Plants For A Future - A resource center for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses.
Food Storage/Fermentation
- Sandor Katz - Wild Fermentation - Rediscover and reinterpret the vast array of fermentation techniques used by our ancestors.
Articles
- Masanobu Fukuoka's Natural Farming and Permaculture - Masanobu Fukuoka's farming technique requires no machines, no chemicals and very little weeding.
- Garden to Table: How to sheet mulch - Sheet mulch is an excellent way of introducing lots of organic matter without back-breaking digging and tilling.
Blogs & Other Sites
- Homegrown Evolution - Vegetables, chickens, hooch, bicycles and cultural alchemy
- Permatechie - Liam Rattray blog - the intersection of ecovillages and hackspaces, ecology and technology, primitivism and transhumanism, permaculture and appropriate technology.
Online Videos
- The Permaculture Concept - Bill Mollison father of Permaculture gives insight into the techniques, practices and benefits of the most important interdisciplinary earth science of our age.
- What Is Permaculture? - Examination of "what is permaculture" at the Grow Here Now - Convergence at Lama.
- Frank Cook Videos on YouTube - Many videos of Frank's plant walks
- Greening the Desert - Geoff Lawton's Ground Breaking implementation of Permaculture in The Dead Sea Valley.
- Permaculture in Action - A playlist of many excellent PC videos
- Masanobu Fukuoka Videos - Seed balls, permaculture and more
Publications
- Permaculture Activist
- Permaculture Magazine
- Tagari Publications - supports the work of the Permaculture Institute by publishing and selling books about Sustainability.
Ecovillages
Miscellaneous
- Urban Paradise Gardening - A gardening service specializing in useful plants, non-toxic methods, and pleasing designs tailored to your urban environment.
- Edible Forest Gardens - inspiring and practical information on the vision, ecology, design, and stewardship of perennial polycultures of multipurpose plants in small-scale settings.
- Botany Everyday - Marc Williams will be facilitating a continuation of the work of the amazing ethnobotanist , explorer, and humanitarian Frank Cook.