Permaculture Web 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

Permaculture Pros - For those seeking Apprenticeships and/or Services

• Ashevillage Institute - Janell Kapoor

• Living Vision Conscious Land Care - Dylan Ryals-Hamilton

• Living Systems Design - Zev Friedman and Chuck Marsh
• Medicine Wheel Collective - Patricia Allison
• Mountain Gardens - Joe Hollis
• Earthwise Company - Tony Kleese
  
  

Classes and Events

• Eagle Feather Farm - Workshops on medicinal plants and mushroom growing

• Living Web Farms - Workshops on sustainable agriculture, Bio-char and Poultry-raising in Mills River

• School of Integrated Living - Eco-village immersion living and learning at Earthaven

• Permaculture in Action - Hands-on workshops for affordable rates in Asheville

• 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
• Botany Everyday - Marc Williams is facilitating a continuation of the work of the amazing ethnobotanist, explorer, and humanitarian Frank Cook.

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
• ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

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.
• 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 backbreaking digging and tilling.
• Permaculture Activist articles - articles on permaculture and related subjects

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.
• Permaculture & Regenerative Design News - Current events and news about permaculture & designing renewable ecologies & economies.

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

• Earthaven Ecovillage - Building a Sustainable Intentional Community
  

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.