Compiled by instructors for Seattle Tilth Urban Permaculture Workshop series 2005, Kathy Dang, Leah Adangfry, Kelda Miller
Books
Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, Mollison
The thick manual outlining Permaculture techniques. Inspiring and has good ideas for applying Permaculture in many different climates.
Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Hemenway This is a beautiful guide to Permaculture as it can be applied to a backyard garden. This book is a great resource for plant lists and clear descriptions of popular Permaculture techniques.
Introduction to Permaculture Mollison
Permaculture One Mollison and Holmgren
Permaculture Two Mollison
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability Holmgren
This text illustrates the ‘3rd wave’ of Permaculture: how do we apply the principles to culture change in the face of peak oil? Clear and inspiring outline of the principles.
Permaculture in a Nutshell Patrick Whitefield
How to Make a Forest Garden Patrick Whitefield
A short read that inspires! Written in England and this book toys with the idea of ‘do we need Farms anyway if instead we have Gardens everywhere?’
Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest Kruckeberg
This book, and others by Kruckeberg are great for fitting in native plant/animal elements into your Permaculture ecosystem.
Designing and Maintaining your Edible Landscape Naturally Kourick
This is a good resource for looking at design elements of edibles: varieties, nutrients, etc.
The Permaculture Way: Practical Ways to Create a Self-Sustaining World Graham Bell
The Permaculture Garden Graham Bell
This book, along with Gaia’s Garden, contains lots of great ideas for applying Permaculture to a home garden. Goes step-by-step through projects.
Permaculture: A Beginner’s Guide B. Graham Bennet
Urban Permaculture David Watkins
Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture Rosemary Morrow
Cornucopia II: A Source Book for Edible Plants Stephen Facciola
This will prove to be an invaluable resource: heard about a strange plant from research? This book will tell you where you can find it.
Forest Gardening: Cultivating an Edible Landscape Robert A de J. Hart
Urban Wilds: Gardener’s Stories of the Struggle for Land and Justice ed. Cleo Wolfe-Erskine
This accounts stories of grassroots gardening and Permaculture movements in many cities in the U.S. (There are stories from Seattle and Tacoma). Also has a fun, simple appendix outlining many fun Permaculture techniques.
Holistic Management Allan Savory
Holistic Management is a great partner with Permaculture because it outlines a great decision-making process for managing land, a business, etc.
One-straw Revolution Masunoba Fukuoka
This scientist-turned-polyculture-farmer (plus more) has great accounts of how easy and abundant farming can be made through observation of natural processes. Fukuoka taught a Permaculture course with Bill Mollison in Olympia many years ago!
Guerilla Greywater Girl’s Guide to Water available from Microcosm Publishing
A fun handbook. Everyone can install greywater systems, legal or not.
Bullocks Permaculture Homestead.
This gives a peek of the 12-acre site on Orcas Island (where Kelda interned). They have a 3-week design course every summer.
Wild Thyme Farm This is a Permaculture site south of Olympia, complete with an agro forestry area.
Lost Valley Education Center
Lost Valley is a community that practices Permaculture on their land near Eugene. They have interns and hold Permacultue workshops.
Linnaea This is a site on Cortes Island, BC. Their intern program/Permaculture course is months long, with an academic approach.
Starhawk’s Permaculture Page
Starhawk combines activism, earth-based spirituality, and Permaculture. She co-teaches with Penny Livingston-Stark the Permaculture design course in Northern California, called Earth Activist Training.
Friends of the Trees, Michael Pilarski
This site has many classes, events relating to bioregional Permaculture-related events: ethnobotany, agroforesty, etc
The Wilder Foundation
This is the place to learn about great projects going on in Nicaragua (where Kathy took her Permaculture design course) and elsewhere.
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