The Houston permaculture community is lively. And chances are, you’ve heard of their innovative approach towards gardening – it involves saving seeds and water, harnessing sunlight with herb spirals and food forests, and leveraging beneficial insects to fight garden pests without toxic chemicals.
But, as you’ll learn from veteran expert Shawn McFarland, permaculture goes beyond orchards and vegetable beds. It can be applied, she says, to business, architecture, and how you live your life. As a consequence, it lends itself to re-imagining how we function as a society.
Find out how it may transform you.
Resources on Houston permaculture:
- Tagari Publications: Here you’ll find books and courses by permaculture founder Bill Mollison.
- Gaia’s Garden, by Toby Hemenway, my favorite book on permaculture gardening.
- Green architect LaVerne Williams, with whom Shawn used to work.
- Urban Harvest, which teaches Houstonians how to grow their own food, and which offers a permaculture certification.
- Animal Farm Center, where some of the permaculture certification is taught.
- Transition Network, a global network that grew from permaculture principles.
- TED talk by Rob Hopkins, who founded the Transition Network.
- The website of Transition Houston, where you can sign up for the group’s newsletter, which is published about once a month.
- Transition Houston’s Facebook group, where much of the group’s social interaction unfolds.
Houston Permaculture Episode Transcript
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