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.

Maud Powell, small farms Extension specialist at Oregon State University, explains the irrigation system connected to a small pond at the farm she runs with her husband, Tom, near Jacksonville, Ore.

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After a heavy rainfall, the gush of water flowing along the new channel at Living Web Farms is what you'd expect after a good deluge, according to John Nelson. Nelson, who designs and installs ...

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 ...

When we arranged to meet Kate and Gene in Marin for a day of birding and lunch, they sent us a map to the B&B where they were spending the weekend. Cricket Cottage in Point Reyes Station sounded, well ...

At Miracle Farms, one farmer is on a mission to show the world that permaculture–a food production system that models itself on the natural world–can work on a commercial scale. What’s the most ...

In this video Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explores the UN World Food Programme's land restoration projects in the ...

Maybe it came up during a dinner party: “I was just at this permaculture farm and they were planting mashua under their locust trees.” Or maybe a friend just came back from a permaculture course: ...