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Perma 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 Service

Classes and Events

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

Culture's Edge at Earthaven Ecovillage - Listings of classes and events at Earthaven
Botany Everyday - Marc Williams is facilitating a continuation of the work of the amazing ethnobotanist, explorer, and humanitarian Frank Cook.

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.

Ecovillages

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.

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.

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.