Going beyond the garden When I started practicing Permaculture, I wasn’t that worried about food. I lived in a household with two middle-class incomes. Rent wasn’t yet completely crazy in early 2010s Durham. I grew food in a Permaculture way Read more…
For people new to the plant world, it’s good to know that nurseries serve really different purposes. A lot of nursery businesses are focused primarily on supplying landscapers and homeowners to plant the same set of ornamental plants seen almost Read more…
In watching the current obsession with AI, I felt that it’s time to finally share my thoughts about using AI from a Permaculture perspective. Spoiler: I don’t like it. So why post a video at all? Does it really matter Read more…
Saturday Permaculture Workshop Series in Hillsborough, NC Beginner-friendly Permaculture classes with a lot of depth! Our 2025 workshop series is complete. Sign-up to get announcements about our 2026 workshop series. Learn Permaculture Locally We’re partnering with Living Arts Collective to Read more…
I wrote this on 2017 as a call to the activists in my life and to myself. There is so much to feel sorrow and anger about in industrial civilization, and yet if we depend on it completely, we have Read more…
What happens to our gardens when the gardener can’t tend them? It was Spring of 2020. My life was undergoing a total transformation, a shedding of thick old skin affirmed one day by a visit from a 5 foot long Read more…
There are no mistakes in a forest. There is no problem that does not hold the seed of its own solution. There is no waste in a forest. There is no fertilizer, no irrigation, no weeding. Every being’s gifts are another being’s Read more…
Silver Branch Permaculture “Silver Branch” is a an archaic symbol recorded in Irish myth but most likely originates far in the Paleolithic. It points to the memory of an entirely other way of seeing. In myth, the Silver Branch reopens Read more…
What if we have everything we need? How does a garden begin? Past the first dream of ripe and gnarly heirloom tomatoes, and after finding the perfect space in whatever land we are lucky enough to be able to alter, Read more…
My journey to Permaculture began in a community garden in 2011 in Carrboro, North Carolina. Like most people I knew, I didn’t know how to grow vegetables. I couldn’t identify one tree from another. I remember being asked to mulch Read more…
