Kay Rhodes sat near the wood fire at D Acres Farm, Monday reading a book on permaculture.The Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, resident was staying a few days to "soak it up" at this organic farm which ...

Forty years ago, at age 4, Maya Blow dressed in her Sunday-best outfit, balanced a tray of Dixie cups filled with natural perfume that she had made from crushed willow tree seeds and established ...

Torie and Thom Foote have always grown their own food, first in Alaska, where they lived for 30 years, and more recently in Colbert, where they relocated in 2011. Nestled in a clearing on a forested ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Though he thinks the global outlook for agriculture appears increasingly alarming, Andrew Millison doesn’t consider himself a pessimist. As a practitioner, instructor and chronicler ...

Graham Whiting of Whiting Design has been working on a Passive House design for a family of permaculture farmers south of Guelph, Ontario. TreeHugger Sami has written a lot about Permaculture, and ...

Nestled on the ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo Peoples, EARTHseed Farm in Sebastopol is a 14-acre solar-powered farm and orchard located on the ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok ...

This family in Australia completely shifted the way they source their food – with remarkable success. When wife Nici suffered an illness, the Coopers decided to start growing their own produce at home ...

Living an off-grid lifestyle is a dream for many, but it’s also incredibly tough to achieve. Still, there are a select few who manage to do it with such style that it makes the transition from running ...

The major transformative potential of permaculture in India lies in its ability to make small-scale farmers self-sufficient. Hence, it offers viable solutions to the very deep crisis farmers are ...