Our Mission
We teach permaculture design, share tools, and cultivate livelihoods rooted in restoring ecosystems and building circular economies.
Our Vision
We envision thriving, self-reliant communities where nature is cherished, and people work together to steward local ecosystems. Through permaculture education and cooperation, communities meet their needs in ways that restore the land, strengthen local economies, cultivating resilience, abundance, and care for one another.
Our Hope
Our hope is rooted in action. When people have the skills, tools, and support to act, transformation becomes possible.
Learning and working alongside an encouraging community gives people the confidence to change how they live, grow food, and care for the places they call home. Through shared effort, hope moves from an idea into lived experience. Our work makes space for you to step into that role—as a permaculture practitioner, educator, and local leader—helping your community adapt, strengthen local systems, and thrive.
Our Commitment
We are committed to cultivating a culture of belonging where people of all colors, cultures, identities, abilities, ages, and backgrounds are welcomed, respected, and valued. We believe that ecological regeneration and community resilience are only possible when everyone has access to education, resources, and participation.
Our Method
We remove barriers to permaculture education through donation-based, hybrid courses with flexible timelines. Our training emphasizes hands-on design, real-world implementation, and practical skills students can use immediately. Graduates collaborate to create local permaculture demonstration sites—living, working landscapes that provide shared learning spaces, food security, practical skills, and local livelihoods, while helping communities adapt to climate change through cooperation and stewardship.
Our Leadership
Our Ethics
Earth Care
People Care
Fair Share
Our Philosophy
We belong to a vast, intelligent family of life. Every being has a role to play, and our significance is equal to all others.
We are interlinked, interdependent, and entrusted with the shared stewardship of our planet.
Our task is not dominance, but participation—rediscovering our place in Earth’s conservation and renewal.
All life shapes the landscape. Squirrels sow the seeds of forests. Wolves move hooved animals through prairies, while big cats guide grazers across savannas, maintaining balance and resilience. Soil dwellers enrich and aerate the earth, making it receptive to rain and life. Nature functions as a collective intelligence, shaped by countless acts of care, movement, and exchange.
As humans, we are not separate from this system—we are part of it. Our responsibility is to live ethically within the web of life, to serve rather than extract, and to contribute to regeneration rather than depletion. When our journey ends, we return our bodies to the soil, nourishing the next cycle and completing our role within Earth's living systems.
Every being has a role to play, and our significance is equal to all others.
We are interlinked, interdependent, and entrusted with the shared stewardship of our planet.
Our task is not dominance, but participation—rediscovering our place in Earth’s conservation and renewal.
All life shapes the landscape. Squirrels sow the seeds of forests. Wolves move hooved animals through prairies, while big cats guide grazers across savannas, maintaining balance and resilience. Soil dwellers enrich and aerate the earth, making it receptive to rain and life. Nature functions as a collective intelligence, shaped by countless acts of care, movement, and exchange.
As humans, we are not separate from this system—we are part of it. Our responsibility is to live ethically within the web of life, to serve rather than extract, and to contribute to regeneration rather than depletion. When our journey ends, we return our bodies to the soil, nourishing the next cycle and completing our role within Earth's living systems.
Squirrels sow the seeds of forests. Wolves move hooved animals through prairies, while big cats guide grazers across savannas, maintaining balance and resilience. Soil dwellers enrich and aerate the earth, making it receptive to rain and life. Nature functions as a collective intelligence, shaped by countless acts of care, movement, and exchange.
As humans, we are not separate from this system—we are part of it. Our responsibility is to live ethically within the web of life, to serve rather than extract, and to contribute to regeneration rather than depletion. When our journey ends, we return our bodies to the soil, nourishing the next cycle and completing our role within Earth's living systems.
Our responsibility is to live ethically within the web of life, to serve rather than extract, and to contribute to regeneration rather than depletion. When our journey ends, we return our bodies to the soil, nourishing the next cycle and completing our role within Earth's living systems.
Our Pledge
We are mindful stewards, honoring and acting on permaculture ethics: Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share.
We are committed to inclusion, equity, and belonging.
We implement solutions for adapting to human induced climate change.
We value all species and their important position in nature's resilient network.
We live in gratitude and partnership with all life.
We share our education, inspiration and skills with our communities.
Our regenerative actions allow remaining species to live.