List of permaculture projects

Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire, England

A permaculture project is a deployment of permaculture practices on an ongoing basis.

Africa

Ethiopia

The Biofarming approach applied in Ethiopia has very similar features and can be considered permaculture. It is mainly promoted by the non-governmental organisation BEA, based in Addis Ababa.

Southern Africa

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has produced a report on using permaculture in refugee situations after successful use in camps in Southern Africa and Republic of Macedonia.

Zimbabwe

There are 60 schools designed using permaculture, with a national team working within the schools' curriculum development unit.

Oceania

Australia

The development of permaculture co-founder David Holmgren's home plot at Melliodora, Central Victoria, has been well documented. Geoff Lawton's Zaytuna Farm next to The Channon in northern NSW, Australia, is a 66-acre medium-farm scale example of permaculture implementation. It is the home base for the Permaculture Research Institute. Begun in 2001, the site is off-grid, and has multiple food forest systems, animal systems, kitchen garden and main crop areas, a large network of water-harvesting earthworks for passive hydration of the site, composting toilets, rocket stove powered showers, straw bale natural buildings, etc.[1]

City Farm Perth is an example of community permaculture in an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The farm was constructed on a brownfield site in 1994, and is a focal point for permaculture education, as well as community music and art.[2]

Asia and the Middle East

Permaculture Institute Asia [3] (PIA) lists most all major permaculture projects and sites in the Asia region. Including Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Palestine, Japan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lao, Malaysia, Micronesia, Nepal, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tiawan, Vietnam, Brunei, Indonesia, Myanmar, Bhutan

India

Living Ecology and Permaculture Patashala provide higher education to permaculture professionals through practical permaculture projects in small villages. The drylands projects help poor rural farmers with sustainable agriculture and permaculture design implementation.[4][5]

Thailand

Permaculture Institute Thailand (PIT) is an institute representing Permaculture projects in Thailand. International courses and residencies as well as Natural building, aquaculture, Food forestry, vermiculture and many more courses and skills in self-sufficiency.[6]

The Phayao Permaculture Center, Phayao, Northern Thailand, is a permaculture project demonstrating permaculture design including education open to all interested in permaculture.

The Permaculture Research Institute Asia (PIA), located in Buri Ram Province, Thailand, is pined on Google maps, it is a permaculture demonstration and education site. Courses and demonstration of permaculture design techniques, bio intensive gardening and farming methods and regenerative ecosystem designing. Integrated aquaculture and ducks with rice paddy, they show how higher diversity leads to higher yields and food security which can be obtained from rice fields/paddy in the Mekong Bio region.

Indonesia

Bumi Langit Institute is an initiative representing Permaculture projects in Indonesia, resided in Yogyakarta. The Institute founded by Iskandar Waworuntu Alhajj an environmentalist veteran in 2006. International and national courses and residencies as well as natural building, aquaculture, food forestry, vermiculture, bamboo culture, coconut culture and many more courses and skills in self-sufficiency, regenerative design and leadership.

Cambodia

A consortium of NGOs including Lom Orng[7] and Ockenden[8] is doing a post-flood livelihood and infrastructure regeneration project, in the country's northwest, which includes permaculture principles, and the establishment of a permaculture demonstration farm in Battambang Province which serves as a community farm and education site and includes a native tree nursery and biogas system providing clean cooking fuel and lighting.[9]

A Facebook Premaculture Cambodia page list various Permaculutre projects in the Cambodia region and the proprieters.

Nepal

The Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) is a grass roots non-government organisation (NGO) set up by trained and motivated farmers from Surkhet district (Mid-Western Nepal) in 2010 to implement sustainable rural development programs in Nepal.[10]

Saudi Arabia

The Al Baydha Project, a land restoration and rural community development program in Western Saudi Arabia.

Europe

Cyprus

GROL Garden — Girne: An Urban Permaculture Project that accepts Volunteers who come under a work-exchange agreement. GROL Garden provides food, accommodation, yoga classes, and hands-on learning in exchange for assistance on their Projects.[11][12][13]

Spain

Red de Permacultura Ibérica (Iberic Permaculture Network)[14]

Portugal

In Portugal there are several Permaculture projects. There's a bottom-up initiative that is mapping most of them called Rede CONVERGIR.[15]

Tribodar Learning Center, located in the center of Portugal, provides an holistic learning experience that allows those involved in the learning process to gain growth on different levels. Having the freedom to learn at our own pace is another element of this learning approach.[16]

Romania

United Kingdom

There are a number of example permaculture projects in the UK, including:

Other projects tend to be more community oriented, particularly in urban areas. These include Naturewise, a north London based group that tends a number of forest gardens and allotments as well as running regular permaculture introductory and design courses;[26] and Organiclea, a workers cooperative that is involved in developing local food-growing and distribution initiatives around the Walthamstow area of east London.[27] The Transition Towns movement initiated in Totnes and Kinsale by Rob Hopkins is underpinned by permaculture design principles in its attempts to visualise sustainable communities beyond peak oil.[28]

The UK Permaculture Association publishes an extensive directory of other projects and example sites throughout the country.

North America

The Permaculture Association of Teachers and Organizers on WiserEarth maintains a US listing.[29]

Northeast US

Southeast US

Midwestern and Rocky Mountain region

Latin America

Belize

Maya Mountain Research Farm in San Pedro Columbia, Toledo, Belize, is a permaculture project founded in 1988 by Christopher Nesbitt on a 70-acre abandoned citrus and cattle land. The land is up the Columbia Branch of Rio Grande from the Kekchi maya community. Presently the farm manages over 500 species of plants. The farm works on agroecology, permaculture, stacked polycultures and installs photovoltaic systems in schools in indigenous communities as well as protected areas.

The farm works closely with farmers organizations and holds one Permaculture Design Course per year.

Costa Rica

Saint Michaels Sustainable Community started building their Permaculture Ranch in 2001 in the mountains of Esterillos, Costa Rica 3.5 Kilometers from the beach. By 2015 they have become internationally recognized model of regenerative agriculture. The building of the community was accomplished by interns, volunteers, woofers, ecological experts, a NASA scientist,agriculture students, permaculturists, local farmers, and environmentalists (some that formerly worked for oil companies)and a regenerative rancher, Justin Dolan. Under Dolans' leadership five living roof homes have been designed and built using permaculture principals and two other homes have been built with rainwater harvesting roofs. A natural salt water swimming pools was installed in a food forest containing over hundreds of types of fruits, medicinal herbs, a free energy aquaponics system, 12 rotational pastures, chickens, lambs, a herd of cattle, reforestation, an equestrian center, organic orchards, and a disc golf course. The Community is home to the Permaculture Country Club of Costa Rica (PCC). The club teaches a Journeyman Apprentice Program. The Candidates need to demonstrate expert knowledge and experience of satisfactory performing the duties involved from start to finish of each area of Permaculute Namely:

Aquaponics design, feeding, harvesting of the fish, inputs and outputs Hugleculture BioChar Swales: building design, planting Edible Landscaping Terrace gardening Rotation of crops and gardens Cover crops Keyline design Basic Organic animal care Rotational Grazing Organic orchard management Introduction to medicinal plants and holistic animal care Driving cattle Agroforestery Food forests Energy efficiency Check dams Plant propagation Planting seedlings, transplanting seedlings, planting trees in square holes, Pruning closer together and pruned in for less water and higher yield Harvesting Building garden beds Gilds Zones Making compost tea; Higher recipe for fruit trees Weed identification, weeding Rain water harvesting Composting methods Natural Building Soil regeneration and ecology Patterns and edge planting Holistic management Bio Dynamics Sustainably intrigued with living Living roof design and construction Twelve design principles of Permaculture Zero Waste / Upcycling/ recycling - Producing no waste And Disc golf [57]

Guatemala

The Instituto Mesoamericano de Permacultura (IMAP)[58] was founded in 2000 by a group of Mayan farmers and professionals in San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala. It is a not-for-profit community organization focused on the development of self-sufficient communities through the responsible management of natural resources, using permaculture techniques and ancestral and traditional knowledge. Areas of focus include: the cultural and biological diversity of Mesoamerica; food security and food sovereignty; organic production systems at the community and familial level; and permaculture education and environmental stewardship.

Cuba

Main article: Organoponicos

Since 1993, Cuba has transformed its food production using low-input, or organic agriculture and, to some degree, permaculture. Havana produces up to 50% of its food requirements within the city limits, much of it organic and produced by people in their homes, gardens and in municipal spaces[59] The transformation in agriculture originated as a response to a crisis which is known as the Special Period. Starting in 1993 Australian permaculturists traveled to Cuba to educate Cuban gardeners in permaculture practices.[60][61]

Ecuador

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