Links to local Permaculture resources In San Diego County
In San Diego County we are lucky to have a strong and growing community of people and businesses actively engaged in building regenerative systems. Here are a few, please feel free to share more!
San Diego Sustainable Living Institute - http://sdsustainable.org/
"We believe that we can make simple, daily changes that promote a more harmonious balance between humans and the earth. We know that every action towards sustainability is the right action. We can produce an abundance of local food with limited water resources, we are able to regenerate poor soils, we are equipped with the tools to build community and we will leave each piece of land better than when we found it, all the while enjoying ourselves and the process."
Catching H2O - https://catchingh2o.com/
Offering consultations on water reuse and storage opportunities, H2OME provides a complete solution from consultation to installation, including passive and active rainwater harvesting and greywater use in conjunction with appropriate plantings and landscaping.
San Diego Permaculture Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/SanDiegoPermaculture/
San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project - http://www.sandiegoroots.org/index.php
A network of citizens, farmers, chefs, gardeners, teachers, and students working to encourage the growth and consumption of regional food. From farm to fork, we focus awareness and work toward a more ecologically sound, economically viable and socially just food system in San Diego.
Wild Willow Farm and Education Center - https://www.wildwillowfarm.org/
A 5 acre working farm that delivers a diverse array of fun and educational workshops – from plant families and beekeeping, to canning and soap making, and many other gardening and homesteading topics.
Jared's Real Food - http://jaredsrealfood.com/
Jared’s Real Food was established to promote health and optimal living for everyone. They do that by growing top quality nutrient dense vegetable, fruit, and herb varieties. They are a small, people-centered, ecologically conscious, artisan farm that produces food which is both authentic and nourishing.
Sky Mountain Institute - http://www.skymountain.org/
Sky Mountain Institute is a nonprofit eco-educational, Ecopsychology research, and Creative Therapy training center founded in 1981, dedicated to exploring the relationship between the creative arts and the healing of self, family, community, and planet.
Finch Frolic Garden - http://www.vegetariat.com/
Finch Frolic Garden is a 1.68-acre permaculture based habitat located in Fallbrook, CA. It is privately owned by Diane Kennedy. Finch Frolic Garden is not open for general public admission, but can be visited through privately arranged tours.
Indigenous Regeneration - http://indigenousregeneration.org/
Indigenous Re-Generation is a 501c3 that exists to inspire Native Communities on re-generative living concepts, through food cultivation, medicinal farming, culture and eco-village education programs, to achieve re-indigenization and true Tribal sovereignty.
Kumeyaay Community College - http://kumeyaaycommunitycollege.com/
The Mission of Kumeyaay Community College is to promote a quality education for the Kumeyaay / Diegueño Nation, California Native American Indians, and other individuals interested in a unique and supportive educational experience.
Coastal Roots Farm - https://coastalrootsfarm.org/
Coastal Roots Farm in Encinitas cultivates healthy, connected communities by integrating sustainable agriculture, food justice, and ancient Jewish wisdom.
Permaculture Voices - https://www.permaculturevoices.com/
Podcasts, videos, and educational content to help you on your journey.
Links to Other Permaculture resources
Permies - https://permies.com/
Permaculture and homesteading community with forums, videos, podcasts, articles, and other resources.
Watershed Management Group - http://watershedmg.org/
WMG develops community-based solutions to ensure the long-term prosperity of people and health of the environment. We provide people with the knowledge, skills, and resources for sustainable livelihoods. They offer rain rainwater harvesting certification classes in Tucson, AZ.
ARCSA (American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association) - http://www.arcsa.org/
ARCSA, a non-profit organization, promotes sustainable rainwater harvesting practices to help solve potable, nonpotable, stormwater and energy challenges throughout the world. They offer rainwater harvesting certification classes around the country.
Soil Foodweb Inc. - http://www.soilfoodweb.com/
The website of Dr. Elaine Ingham. "Behind her user-friendly approach lies a wealth of knowledge gained from years of research into the organisms which make up the soil food web. Her goal is to translate this knowledge into actions that ensure a healthy food web that promotes plant growth and reduces reliance on inorganic chemicals. Elaine also offers a pioneering vision for sustainable farming, improving our current soils to a healthier state, without damaging any other ecosystem."
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster - http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/
Brad's goal is to empower his clients and his community to make positive change in their own lives and yards, by harvesting and enhancing free on-site resources such as water, sun, wind, shade, and more. He provides accessible books that explain what water harvesting is, how to do it appropriately, and how to tailor water-harvesting strategies to the unique conditions of different sites and integrate it with the harvest of other resources.
The Permaculture Student - http://www.thepermaculturestudent.com/
Matt Powers teaches permaculture and regenerative gardening and farming to families, youth, schools, and adults all over the world through his online courses, videos, and books.
Permaculture and homesteading community with forums, videos, podcasts, articles, and other resources.
Watershed Management Group - http://watershedmg.org/
WMG develops community-based solutions to ensure the long-term prosperity of people and health of the environment. We provide people with the knowledge, skills, and resources for sustainable livelihoods. They offer rain rainwater harvesting certification classes in Tucson, AZ.
ARCSA (American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association) - http://www.arcsa.org/
ARCSA, a non-profit organization, promotes sustainable rainwater harvesting practices to help solve potable, nonpotable, stormwater and energy challenges throughout the world. They offer rainwater harvesting certification classes around the country.
Soil Foodweb Inc. - http://www.soilfoodweb.com/
The website of Dr. Elaine Ingham. "Behind her user-friendly approach lies a wealth of knowledge gained from years of research into the organisms which make up the soil food web. Her goal is to translate this knowledge into actions that ensure a healthy food web that promotes plant growth and reduces reliance on inorganic chemicals. Elaine also offers a pioneering vision for sustainable farming, improving our current soils to a healthier state, without damaging any other ecosystem."
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster - http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/
Brad's goal is to empower his clients and his community to make positive change in their own lives and yards, by harvesting and enhancing free on-site resources such as water, sun, wind, shade, and more. He provides accessible books that explain what water harvesting is, how to do it appropriately, and how to tailor water-harvesting strategies to the unique conditions of different sites and integrate it with the harvest of other resources.
The Permaculture Student - http://www.thepermaculturestudent.com/
Matt Powers teaches permaculture and regenerative gardening and farming to families, youth, schools, and adults all over the world through his online courses, videos, and books.
Books Worth Reading About Permaculture
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Permaculture: A Designer's Manual
By Bill Mollison Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order. Permaculture design is a system of assembling conceptual, material, and strategic components in a pattern which functions to benefit life in all its forms. The philosophy behind permaculture is one of working with, rather than against, nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions rather than asking only one yield of them; and of allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions. The Permaculture Student 2
By Matt Powers This book is full of photographs of real-life examples, instructive diagrams, engaging illustrations, inspiring and instructive quotes, and current references that connect, organize, and highlight the current leading examples of applied permaculture in numerous fields and situations. Readers get a clear idea of how they can apply permaculture in their own way in their own lives. Tending The Wild
By Kat Anderson John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told them about how and when areas were burned, which plants were eaten and which were used for basketry, and how plants were tended. The complex picture that emerges from this and other historical source material dispels the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical literature. We come to see California's indigenous people as active agents of environmental change and stewardship. Tending the Wild persuasively argues that this traditional ecological knowledge is essential if we are to successfully meet the challenge of living sustainably. |
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond
Volume 1: Guiding Principles Volume 2: Rainwater Harvesting Earthworks By Brad Landcaster Turn water scarcity into water abundance! These books show you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. They enable you to access your on-site resources (rainwater, greywater, topsoil, sun, plants, and more), give you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empower you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional resource-harvesting and -enhancing landscape plan specific to your site and needs. These books will help bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow yourself and your community with skills of self-reliance and cooperation, generate renewable on-site power, and create living air conditioners of vegetation that grow beauty, food, flood-control, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same! Gaia's Garden
By Toby Hemingway The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers. Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening—which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants—can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it’s fun and easy to create a “backyard ecosystem” by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including:
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Rainwater Harvesting and Permaculture - Introduction and Fundamentals
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