Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Adding multiple ponds to our permaculture style homestead is a major part of our mainframe design. We previously added swales and rainwater catchment because they were higher on the priority list.

If the term is new to your vocabulary – permaculture combines natural landscaping and edible gardening, with the aim of mimicking patterns and relationships found in nature. Today through Sunday the ...

Some of the old methods of managing water are overdue for change, as declining snowpacks and aquifer levels are making increasingly apparent across the West. For advocates of permaculture and other ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. If you’ve ordered a salad at the Cockeyed Gull on Peaks Island this summer, ...

HOLYOKE - As a multifaceted field, permaculture is a term many know of, but find it hard to define. Bill Mollison, considered the "father of permaculture," described it as "a philosophy of working ...

I can still remember my first encounter with the term “permaculture.” It was a Plowboy interview with Bill Mollison in MOTHER EARTH NEWS in 1980. I remember well how the ideas resonated with me, and I ...