Tropical permaculture

Looking for plants that are suitable for your tropical permaculture design? These are my top 25 All-Star Tropical Permaculture Plants!

A permaculture guidebook to enabling people across the tropical world and beyond to have access to the information, strategies and techniques they need.

I have a university degree in economics, but my studies did not touch upon the etymology of that word—derived from the Greek oikonomia meaning “management of the household.” My studies set me to master Microsoft Excel, to calculate complex regression analysis, and prepared me for a job in finance. They did not, though, prepare me for what to do with so many bananas.

Now that we're home from Costa Rica, I have tropical permaculture on my mind! Here I will show you some of the cool permaculture designs that we saw on our trip.

The image above shows part of a permaculture design for a riverside plot in India, with an approximate location for a new home, with a natural swimming pool. A path leads down between fruit trees a…

You’ve just purchased your dream property in tropical Costa Rica. You want to grow your own food. You are anxious to get to work now, have bought some plants from a nursery you randomly drove by, and

“One must begin in one’s own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.” Wendell Berry It is with this in mind that I personally explore the problem of economics. I have

The tropical forest is constantly self-mulching. After a walk in the woods I usually return with bit

Check out how one ambitious couple gave up the rat race lifestyle to build an off-grid homestead, surrounded by organic gardens, in Hawaii.