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Cultural Emergence with Looby Macnamara: Widening our Understanding of Permaculture

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In June of 2026, I had the privilege of visiting Applewood Permaculture Centre in the UK and learning from Looby Macnamara. For those of you who have taken courses with me over the years, I reference Looby’s work fairly often. Looby Macnamara is the co-founder of the Applewood Permaculture Centre as well as the author of several

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Interested in Flower Farming? Hear from my student Adrienne from Little Button Farm!

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If you’ve ever been interested in what it takes to start a small flower farm then you’ll want to check out my video today. In it, I talk with one of my students, Adrienne from Little Button Farm. Adrienne and I sat down on a blustery afternoon a couple of weeks ago to talk about

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I’m doing something I’ve never done in my 18+ years of gardening!

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Amidst the promise of renewal that spring brings, I’m definitely feeling the precarity of these times. When I get upset and overwhelmed by the state of the world and the polycrisis we’re facing, I need only focus on the incredible students, clients and growers in our community to bring me back to center and remind

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Don’t feel like a failure if you can’t do it all…social systems design for your homestead

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This is the time of year when I can finally exhale after a very busy growing season. Food preservation is almost complete, my Resilient Homestead Program is underway and it’s time to spend more time on some inner resilience practices (reading, dance classes, drawing class, visits with friends) that enable me to continue to do

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Tour a Small Suburban Permaculture Site!

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I’m very excited to be sharing this video with you today! In it, I take a tour of my students, Jamie and Niall’s, small suburban backyard. Jamie and Niall took my Resilient Homestead Program three years ago and have done an amazing job with their implementation plan, while also fitting in the birth of their

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Resilient Homestead Student Spotlight! – Becki

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One thing you’ll discover when you learn more about permaculture is that it encompasses way more than just growing food. In my Resilient Homestead Program, I take my students through the design of their site, using a permaculture approach. But more than that, I’ve often found that the program has the added benefit of giving folks

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A Permaculture Site with over 100 Native Plant Species!

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If I had to do it over again, I would have planted way more native species in our food forest. In the end, I got my native plant fix by converting my entire front yard into native and/or drought tolerant species (see video here) but when I was first installing my food forest, the popularity

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A Way to Practice Permaculture without a Garden – A Visit with Alissa LaChance from Dirt Rich Compost!

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For those of you familiar with permaculture principles, Produce No Waste is such an important principle to practice in our communities. Whether it’s composting your kitchen scraps in your backyard, decreasing your use of single-use plastic and packaging, mending clothes, thrifting items or hosting repair cafes, there are countless ways in which to practice this

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Happy Little Accident in the Food Forest!

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When stewarding food forests, I always like to remind my students and clients that a food forest, like a natural ecosystem, is dynamic. It evolves and changes over time. While your initial food forest design may act as guide to get you started, you’ll find that, as the system matures, some plants might outcompete others,

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