Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
“The average yard is both an ecological and agricultural desert. The prime offender is short-mown grass, which offers no habitat and nothing for people… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
When you are doing work of value, people will support you in a variety of ways, not just money. — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
I’m going to argue here that the most accurate and least muddled way to think of permaculture is as a design approach, and that… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
