"Life on Earth is a Gift.
Biodiverse Land and Water are a Commons.
Live Well within the Earth Commons."
"A land trust combining the strengths of two global movements - permaculture and conservation - we are applying them to create local food sheds that are secure for future generations to inherit."
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Do you know of a project or a person that would like to donate their land or be part of:
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Helping Us to Start Regenerative Farming, Permaculture Training Centers, Growing Food, Planting trees, starting nurseries and training up a new wave of designers, entrepreneurs and growers in beyond organic, ecologically restorative models of local economic development.
Permaculture Living Lands Trust Education & Training Centers
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Our educational centers are designed to train individuals and communities in a new model of economic development.
It is adapted to the real needs of the region and the people who live there. These training centers are part of a larger cultural transition from a centralized high-tech industrial model of growth to a decentralized and more regionally grounded and green economy.
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Our Vision:
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Creating a network of permaculture training centers and demonstration farms.
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Bringing about truly resilient regional food systems.
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A global commons for human ecology to thrive in all bioregions.
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Permaculture Living Lands Trust, Inc. is a registered 501c3 nonprofit organization. All contributions are tax deductible in the United States.
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Our Mission :
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Protect and preserve permaculture properties and rare fruit and nut tree plantings.
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Converting properties and landscapes to permaculture systems.
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Starting agroforestry and tree crop nurseries
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Co-creating a network of permaculture land commons that supports cultural landscapes for long-term resilience.
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Working with watershed groups, municipalities, state and local agencies, creating food, water and energy comprehensive plans
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Increasing the diversity, quality and quantity of yields for farm-based economies, in ecologically restorative ways.
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Our Origin Story
Founded in 2019 permaculture living lands trust brings together the wisdom of the global permaculture design movement and the strengths of the global conservation movement. Our core values are rooted in reverence for, and solidarity with, the timeless ecological knowledge of indigenous cultures the world over.
We believe that land can be held in trust for community and ecological benefit as a locally-governed commons.
We are land conservationists, permaculture designers and educators, and local living economy advocates, focused on Earth care, People Care, and Fair Share. Our work is within the Eastern Deciduous Forest Biome of this continent, Turtle Island, and beyond. Please join us in co-creating what the world needs now – a land commons for human ecological design to flourish!
"Permaculture Living Lands Trust is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization.
All contributions are tax deductible in the US."
Permaculture Forest Gardening
Creating whole site property plans that include agroforestry, off-grid intern housing, educational campus for permaculture training.
Abundant Chestnuts
We are finding rare and valuable nut tree plantings and working with property owners to protect them. We are connecting experienced nursery people to train new growers.
Organic Crops
The right plant for the right place, we honor prime agricultural soils by using for high value vegetable crops. On site compost and gravity fed water supplies for all of our crops.
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Permaculture is a creative design process based on whole-systems thinking informed by ethics and design principles. This approach seeks to mimic the patterns and relationships we can find in nature and can be applied to all aspects of human habitation, from agriculture to ecological building, from appropriate technology to education and even metropolises.
Andrew Faust is one of the premiere permaculture teachers and designers in North America. In this podcast episode, Andrew talks about his backstory from gaining experience building permaculture sites and off-grid natural buildings to then applying those same principals to a different setting: New York City. It is becoming abundantly apparent that homes and cities have been built upon a faulty foundation.
As progress into the 21st century we are collectively realizing that we need to change the way that we build and change the way that we interact with our outer (and inner) worlds. In other words, we have to redesign how we design. That's where Andrew's teachings step in.
His innovative approach to using permaculture design to rethink urban metropolises is making an impacts large and small. He argues that we need to see cities as "urban metabolisms" and focus on energy nodes, and water and nutrients flows. From his work, thousands of students have gone on to apply this philosophy into their work and communities.
This episode is deeply insightful and one that you'll likely want to listen to several times. To learn more about Andrew Faust's work you can visit his website at the Center for Bioregional Living.
