#permaculture — Public Fediverse posts

#Degrowth means the reduction of the destructive industrial systems, yes, but it also means the regrowth of local constructive resilient ecological systems. Bill Mollison (cofounder of #Permaculture) said, "If 10% of the people shifted from consumption to [ecological] production that would save the world."

#Degrowth means the reduction of the destructive industrial systems, yes, but it also means the regrowth of local constructive resilient ecological systems. Bill Mollison (cofounder of #Permaculture) said, "If 10% of the people shifted from consumption to [ecological] production that would save the world."

Okay, seriously though, let's talk about humus (HOO-mes) the soil stuff, not hummus (HUM-mus) the delicious chickpea (garbanzo bean) dip.

SolarPunk begins at the microbial level. Humus is how life turns lifeless mineral matter into the organic flesh of the living Earth. Those pretty graphics of green cities? That's what the microbes are doing in the soil, turning it from barren and crappy to comfortable and lush.

#Humus #SolarPunk #Gardening #Permaculture

Okay, seriously though, let's talk about humus (HOO-mes) the soil stuff, not hummus (HUM-mus) the delicious chickpea (garbanzo bean) dip.

SolarPunk begins at the microbial level. Humus is how life turns lifeless mineral matter into the organic flesh of the living Earth. Those pretty graphics of green cities? That's what the microbes are doing in the soil, turning it from barren and crappy to comfortable and lush.

#Humus #SolarPunk #Gardening #Permaculture

Frantically trying to plant the ugliest soil you have ever seen with nothing but cover crops, radishes, a shovel, and duck litter .--.

Future alley crop , currently a sandy pit ✨️

I cant even get the shovel past an inch , 😪 are there short season beans I can put here? How do I make sure the radish make it?

**#goose for scale ⚖️

Sandy loam , zone 5a #permaculture #foodsecurity #growyourown #gardening #soilhealth #ag #alternativeag #solarpunk #urbanag #cityfarm #lowtech #regenag

Frantically trying to plant the ugliest soil you have ever seen with nothing but cover crops, radishes, a shovel, and duck litter .--.

Future alley crop , currently a sandy pit ✨️

I cant even get the shovel past an inch , 😪 are there short season beans I can put here? How do I make sure the radish make it?

**#goose for scale ⚖️

Sandy loam , zone 5a #permaculture #foodsecurity #growyourown #gardening #soilhealth #ag #alternativeag #solarpunk #urbanag #cityfarm #lowtech #regenag

You know about humus, right?

I was watching this TED talk about it and the speaker opens with this bit of anecdote about folks trying to save the world and they don't know about humus.

You gotta know about humus. To a first approximation making humus is your main job. If you're not making humus you're part of the problem kiddo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humus

#Permaculture #Gardening #Ecology

(Bloddy hell the word "humus" wasn't in the spellchecker!)

You know about humus, right?

I was watching this TED talk about it and the speaker opens with this bit of anecdote about folks trying to save the world and they don't know about humus.

You gotta know about humus. To a first approximation making humus is your main job. If you're not making humus you're part of the problem kiddo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humus

#Permaculture #Gardening #Ecology

(Bloddy hell the word "humus" wasn't in the spellchecker!)

cooking time 😋

#gardening #permaculture #tomatoes #harvest #photography

cooking time 😋

#gardening #permaculture #tomatoes #harvest #photography

#Alternativeag #regenerativeag #permaculture #foodfarm #growyourown
#naturalfarmingsystems

Yes! Diversity to meet complexity is necessity! Solarpunk opens up possibility instead of closing opportunities

We can divest our agriculture practices from the global oil market by restoring ecosystem services. Hope is the eyeglass to progress, without it we are blinded to pathways out

#solarpunk #bloomscrolling

#Alternativeag #regenerativeag #permaculture #foodfarm #growyourown
#naturalfarmingsystems

Yes! Diversity to meet complexity is necessity! Solarpunk opens up possibility instead of closing opportunities

We can divest our agriculture practices from the global oil market by restoring ecosystem services. Hope is the eyeglass to progress, without it we are blinded to pathways out

#solarpunk #bloomscrolling

Gardening book advice wanted 👩‍🌾 📚

I’m looking for a book which clearly (but not too simplistically) outlines what plants (think veggies and fruit) should be planted when and what should be planted together as companion plants. 🫛🌽

There’s probably a word which articulates that idea more succinctly but it’s the morning and I can’t think of it.

Out of print is ok, I don’t mind hunting for it if it’s a good one! 🔍

#gardening #books #permaculture

Gardening book advice wanted 👩‍🌾 📚

I’m looking for a book which clearly (but not too simplistically) outlines what plants (think veggies and fruit) should be planted when and what should be planted together as companion plants. 🫛🌽

There’s probably a word which articulates that idea more succinctly but it’s the morning and I can’t think of it.

Out of print is ok, I don’t mind hunting for it if it’s a good one! 🔍

#gardening #books #permaculture

From "PERMACULTURE A Designer's Manual" Table of Contents

Chap. 14 The Strategies of an Alternative Global Nation

14.1 Introduction
14.2 Ethical basis of an alternative nation
14.3 A new United Nations
14.4 Alternatives to political systems
14.5 Bioregional organization
14.6 Extended families
14.7 Trusts and legal strategies

1/2

#Permaculture

From "PERMACULTURE A Designer's Manual" Table of Contents

Chap. 14 The Strategies of an Alternative Global Nation

14.1 Introduction
14.2 Ethical basis of an alternative nation
14.3 A new United Nations
14.4 Alternatives to political systems
14.5 Bioregional organization
14.6 Extended families
14.7 Trusts and legal strategies

1/2

#Permaculture

I can’t help myself.

#gardening #plants #permaculture #diversity #wilderness #botany #horticulture

I can’t help myself.

#gardening #plants #permaculture #diversity #wilderness #botany #horticulture

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Fossil-based agriculture is doomed because its plants cannot resist big heatwaves. Adaptation could involve sustainable agriculture (such a permaculture).

In parts losing rain (notably because of AMOC shutdown), people could resort to sustainable agriculture too ‒ inspired from tradition at neighbours'.

For example: https://www.isasat.org/Vol-ii%2cissue-i/AARJ_2_1_3_Viswanath.pdf
…

#resilience #agroforestry #permaculture #homegardens #adaptation #India

…
Fossil-based agriculture is doomed because its plants cannot resist big heatwaves. Adaptation could involve sustainable agriculture (such a permaculture).

In parts losing rain (notably because of AMOC shutdown), people could resort to sustainable agriculture too ‒ inspired from tradition at neighbours'.

For example: https://www.isasat.org/Vol-ii%2cissue-i/AARJ_2_1_3_Viswanath.pdf
…

#resilience #agroforestry #permaculture #homegardens #adaptation #India

Rating our favorite agroforestry resources,, 🌳

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#naturalsystemsfarming #agroecology #nature #farming #permaculture #regenag #silvopasture #ecologicaldesign

Rating our favorite agroforestry resources,, 🌳

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#naturalsystemsfarming #agroecology #nature #farming #permaculture #regenag #silvopasture #ecologicaldesign

Industry is Actually an Ecological Phenomena lol ^^
6th Massive Extinction in Progress
https://www.notre-planete.info/environnement/biodiversite/extinctions_massives.php
#permaculture #solarPunk

Industry is Actually an Ecological Phenomena lol ^^
6th Massive Extinction in Progress
https://www.notre-planete.info/environnement/biodiversite/extinctions_massives.php
#permaculture #solarPunk

Glass or Plastic's Alternative : Transparent-Wood.. Not as Ecological as Cardboard, Wood or Animal Hives's Windows but Still ;) and Improving Solar Energy as Well ^^
https://www.fluxenet.fr/bois-transparent-comment-est-fabrique-le-materiau-qui-remplacera-peut-etre-le-verre.html
#solarPunk #permaculture

Glass or Plastic's Alternative : Transparent-Wood.. Not as Ecological as Cardboard, Wood or Animal Hives's Windows but Still ;) and Improving Solar Energy as Well ^^
https://www.fluxenet.fr/bois-transparent-comment-est-fabrique-le-materiau-qui-remplacera-peut-etre-le-verre.html
#solarPunk #permaculture

#FarmsInschools initiative
#UgandaFarm

"Farms in Schools Initiative is a community-led educational program in #Uganda that integrates #agroecology, #UrbanFarming, and sustainable food production into schools and local communities. Through hands-on learning, students cultivate vegetables, herbs, fruits, and other crops while exploring #RegenerativeAgriculture , #permaculture, vertical farming, aquaponics, and small-scale livestock management. The initiative promotes food security, #EnvironmentalStewardship, youth empowerment, and practical agricultural skills, encouraging young people to become active contributors to healthier, more resilient, and sustainable communities. By transforming schools into living classrooms, Farms in Schools demonstrates that even small gardens can produce meaningful educational, social, and environmental impact while helping address hidden hunger through local food production."

Learn more about our work
https://mastodon.world/@mikecastro

https://agroecologymap.org/locations/farms-in-schools-initiative

#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSecurity #AgroecologyMap

#FarmsInschools initiative
#UgandaFarm

"Farms in Schools Initiative is a community-led educational program in #Uganda that integrates #agroecology, #UrbanFarming, and sustainable food production into schools and local communities. Through hands-on learning, students cultivate vegetables, herbs, fruits, and other crops while exploring #RegenerativeAgriculture , #permaculture, vertical farming, aquaponics, and small-scale livestock management. The initiative promotes food security, #EnvironmentalStewardship, youth empowerment, and practical agricultural skills, encouraging young people to become active contributors to healthier, more resilient, and sustainable communities. By transforming schools into living classrooms, Farms in Schools demonstrates that even small gardens can produce meaningful educational, social, and environmental impact while helping address hidden hunger through local food production."

Learn more about our work
https://mastodon.world/@mikecastro

https://agroecologymap.org/locations/farms-in-schools-initiative

#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSecurity #AgroecologyMap

@freakonometrics Au Contraire, The Paris Agreement in 2015, was our more 'unified' solve, as a last resort, for differentiating from fossil fuels products and byproducts.

Now it's #permaculture in the #GlobalSouth, since most ignorance is amassed in the Northern Hemisphere.

@freakonometrics Au Contraire, The Paris Agreement in 2015, was our more 'unified' solve, as a last resort, for differentiating from fossil fuels products and byproducts.

Now it's #permaculture in the #GlobalSouth, since most ignorance is amassed in the Northern Hemisphere.

"Patterns in Nature", Peter S. Stevens, 1974

> In a stunning synthesis of art and science, Peter Stevens explores the universal patterns in which nature expresses herself. He provides a fresh way of viewing and understanding the physical world.

https://archive.org/details/patternsinnature0000stev

#SolarPunk #Permaculture

"Patterns in Nature", Peter S. Stevens, 1974

> In a stunning synthesis of art and science, Peter Stevens explores the universal patterns in which nature expresses herself. He provides a fresh way of viewing and understanding the physical world.

https://archive.org/details/patternsinnature0000stev

#SolarPunk #Permaculture

You can now access all replays of the International Festival Of Wild & Kind Ideas from May 2026 - hosted by #MoragGamble - in exchange for your email and an optional financial contribution:

https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/festival-2026/

Soo many important & inspiring talks, people and ideas ✨🌱

#rewilding #permaculture #ecology #kindness #wilderness #future #regeneration #culture #humanity

You can now access all replays of the International Festival Of Wild & Kind Ideas from May 2026 - hosted by #MoragGamble - in exchange for your email and an optional financial contribution:

https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/festival-2026/

Soo many important & inspiring talks, people and ideas ✨🌱

#rewilding #permaculture #ecology #kindness #wilderness #future #regeneration #culture #humanity

I'm a day late on crossposting this BUT our August newsletter just went out to all subscribers and it's a really really good one for folks with chickens or who want chickens. It's on brooding and hatching your OWN chicks and specifically how we've gotten around some of the problems we ran into taking advice straight from some of the big voices in the chicken world (chicken world? I'd like to go there)

Anyway, check it out! This one is totally free. If you like it, pass it along!

Fairly soon we will also be unveiling the new Rancho de la Libertad website that Starlight is designing and developing. I'm very excited, I did all of the branding work on this and I think it's going to be a nicer experience than just the current Ghost site is -- and the writing will all be embedded.

https://rancholibertad.com/chickens-in-the-desert-hatching-and-brooding-chicks-naturally/?ref=rancho-de-la-libertad-newsletter

#Chickens #Chicks #SmallFarm #Permaculture #CommunitySovereignty #Sustainability

I'm a day late on crossposting this BUT our August newsletter just went out to all subscribers and it's a really really good one for folks with chickens or who want chickens. It's on brooding and hatching your OWN chicks and specifically how we've gotten around some of the problems we ran into taking advice straight from some of the big voices in the chicken world (chicken world? I'd like to go there)

Anyway, check it out! This one is totally free. If you like it, pass it along!

Fairly soon we will also be unveiling the new Rancho de la Libertad website that Starlight is designing and developing. I'm very excited, I did all of the branding work on this and I think it's going to be a nicer experience than just the current Ghost site is -- and the writing will all be embedded.

https://rancholibertad.com/chickens-in-the-desert-hatching-and-brooding-chicks-naturally/?ref=rancho-de-la-libertad-newsletter

#Chickens #Chicks #SmallFarm #Permaculture #CommunitySovereignty #Sustainability

Discover HASERA, Nepal’s organic permaculture farm 🌱 where agroecology, food sovereignty, and agroforestry thrive. Learn regenerative farming with global communities! 🌍🌾 https://agroecologymap.org/l/337 #Permaculture #Sustainability #Nepal #OrganicFarm #Agroecology

Discover HASERA, Nepal’s organic permaculture farm 🌱 where agroecology, food sovereignty, and agroforestry thrive. Learn regenerative farming with global communities! 🌍🌾 https://agroecologymap.org/l/337 #Permaculture #Sustainability #Nepal #OrganicFarm #Agroecology

High Valley Dawn: an off-grid, agroecological food forest & market garden in Queensland, Australia, rooted in permaculture, food sovereignty & Darumbal Indigenous wisdom. Growing joy with Mother Nature 🐸🌱🌞 https://agroecologymap.org/l/335 #HighValleyDawn #Permaculture #Sustainability #Agroecology

High Valley Dawn: an off-grid, agroecological food forest & market garden in Queensland, Australia, rooted in permaculture, food sovereignty & Darumbal Indigenous wisdom. Growing joy with Mother Nature 🐸🌱🌞 https://agroecologymap.org/l/335 #HighValleyDawn #Permaculture #Sustainability #Agroecology

Discover how the Itinerant Agroecology School in Amazonas transforms lives through agroecology, permaculture, and food sovereignty 🌱💚 https://agroecologymap.org/l/294 #Agroecology #Permaculture #Amazon #Sustainability

Discover how the Itinerant Agroecology School in Amazonas transforms lives through agroecology, permaculture, and food sovereignty 🌱💚 https://agroecologymap.org/l/294 #Agroecology #Permaculture #Amazon #Sustainability

Urban Hijau 🌱: agroecological permaculture in the city! Rebuilding food systems with food sovereignty & sustainability. Join the movement! https://agroecologymap.org/l/458 #UrbanHijau #Permaculture #Sustainability #Agroecology

Urban Hijau 🌱: agroecological permaculture in the city! Rebuilding food systems with food sovereignty & sustainability. Join the movement! https://agroecologymap.org/l/458 #UrbanHijau #Permaculture #Sustainability #Agroecology

Yesterday I was able to leave work a little early and catch the explanations about syntropic forestry at the urban farm. I learned a lot more about the principles codified by Ernst Götsch and where they came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_G%C3%B6tsch

#AgroForestry #Permaculture #Solarpunk #Villejuif #UrbanFarm

Yesterday I was able to leave work a little early and catch the explanations about syntropic forestry at the urban farm. I learned a lot more about the principles codified by Ernst Götsch and where they came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_G%C3%B6tsch

#AgroForestry #Permaculture #Solarpunk #Villejuif #UrbanFarm

€1,400 REMAINING
https://gofund.me/e9243328d

Help Us Make This Dream a Reality ❤️

Your kindness can give hope to communities that have so little.

If you know what it means to have nothing,
you know why giving matters.
@DamonHD @paulpeace
🙏 Thank you for supporting YECI.
https://gofund.me/e9243328d

#ClimateAction #Sustainability #Permaculture #TreePlanting #SchoolGardens #FoodSecurity #SoilHealth #Umweltschutz #Klimaschutz #Nachhaltigkeit #Permakultur #Natur #ZeroWaste #Uganda #Europe #USA 🌍🌱💚🙏

€1,400 REMAINING
https://gofund.me/e9243328d

Help Us Make This Dream a Reality ❤️

Your kindness can give hope to communities that have so little.

If you know what it means to have nothing,
you know why giving matters.
@DamonHD @paulpeace
🙏 Thank you for supporting YECI.
https://gofund.me/e9243328d

#ClimateAction #Sustainability #Permaculture #TreePlanting #SchoolGardens #FoodSecurity #SoilHealth #Umweltschutz #Klimaschutz #Nachhaltigkeit #Permakultur #Natur #ZeroWaste #Uganda #Europe #USA 🌍🌱💚🙏

I missed this. In the description of the waste treatment video there's a link to an older video of a young Millison and John Todd setting up a system. The secret is to just grab some nature and run it in the system until it "pops" (jargon from aquarium keepers, it means when the ecosystem becomes a coherent whole and functions well together).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jRekZJx_-Q

#Permaculture #SolarPunk #Ecology

I missed this. In the description of the waste treatment video there's a link to an older video of a young Millison and John Todd setting up a system. The secret is to just grab some nature and run it in the system until it "pops" (jargon from aquarium keepers, it means when the ecosystem becomes a coherent whole and functions well together).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jRekZJx_-Q

#Permaculture #SolarPunk #Ecology

Uuuuund wieder ein Erntebild.
#gartenliebe #ernte26 #permaculture
#gardening #jardinage #organicseedsUKR

tomato season has begun 😋

#gardening #permaculture #flowers #harvest