by Clare Leschin-Hoar This article was first published on February 21, 2012 and is reprinted with permission of TakePart, Beverly Hills, CA. Forget meadows. The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking.
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Measuring Progress: Permaculture Responds
April 13, 2012 in Permaculture
by Ben Falk Sue Reed’s article, “A Talk of Three Garden Shows: Progress?” oversimplifies an important and complex issue. Since Sue did not attend my talks at the ELA Conference, I will offer some of the perspectives we work from when practicing permaculture. When referring to permaculture she states: “Like all the worst systems of…
The Consciously Designed Life – Living with the Active Voice of Permaculture, Part 2
March 15, 2012 in Permaculture
by Lauren Chase Rowell ” That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.” -Aldo Leopold Part 2 Conscious Design in the Yard and Landscape Dalton’s Pasture is a historical name our family has chosen to call our nineteen-acre,…
The Consciously Designed Life – Living with the Active Voice of Permaculture, Part 1
February 13, 2012 in Permaculture
by Lauren Chase Rowell “The finest design for society will not be one worked up by specialists but a design created by the people themselves to fit their needs. Planners and designers are needed, but to help, not to preempt, the democratic work of creating a new society”. –Wm. S. Coperthwaite Part 1 Conscious Design…
Learning from the Land: A Permaculture Design Provides an Outdoor Classroom for the Conway School
August 16, 2011 in Permaculture
by Mollie Babize On a south-facing hillside in Conway, Massachusetts, an eight-acre experimental landscape and permaculture classroom is evolving. In its third year, this outdoor “learning lab” sits in close proximity to the Conway School, a ten-month graduate program in sustainable landscape planning and design. Jono Neiger, principal of Regenerative Design Group of Greenfield and…
Installation and Early Maintenance of an Edible Garden
August 16, 2011 in Edible Landscaping, Permaculture
by Tricia Diggins The first plantings of the Edible Ecosystem Demonstration Garden at Wellesley College Botanic Gardens (WCBG) went into the ground this spring, beginning the multi-year implementation of a garden designed by Dave Jacke of Dynamics Ecological Design and Keith Zaltzberg of Regenerative Design Group. The garden “is designed to explore the question, ‘How…
WCBG’s Edible Ecosystem Demonstration Garden: A Cutting Edge Exploration in Ecology and Botany
August 16, 2011 in Edible Landscaping, Permaculture
This article is reprinted with the authors’ permission from the Spring 2011 issue of the Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture (WCFH) Newsletter. Photos courtesy of WCFH. by Dave Jacke and Keith Zaltzberg How well can we design a plant community that mimics the properties, principles, patterns and processes of natural ecosystems but produces food and…
Gaias Garden (excerpt)
January 15, 2010 in Permaculture
In Gaia’s Garden, Toby Hemenway presents permaculture. Permaculture is a design method that helps humans design and re-wild landscapes following nature’s patterns. Robust enough to invigorate and regenerate landscapes across continents, permaculture has found astounding success is every climate. Hemenway takes it to the home-scale, offering tools to create self-sustaining systems that increase functionality and…
