ISSUE 1 · SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2026
Permaculture Review
Your Saturday coffee catch-up on permaculture around the world. About 30 minutes. Tap any title to go deeper.
🌍 Around the world: Português · Français · Español · Deutsch · Bahasa Indonesia · 日本語 · 中文 · Polski · Українська
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Editor's note
Just Start
I like to say “Just Start”. Such a valuable lesson for life. Same applies to this magazine. I don't know where it will go or be in 5 years, but the goal for it is simple: allow me and you to catch up on what's going on in the Global Permaculture Community on a Saturday morning in 30 minutes. If you get value, pass the word on. It's made to be quick and easy to read and share.
Stefan Sobkowiak, Miracle Farms, Quebec
The one filter for everything here: it has to fit something in Bill Mollison's Permaculture: A Designers' Manual or David Holmgren's principles. Each item carries its Designers' Manual section (DM) so you can look it up.
New here? Start with
Four doors in. Pick one.
Roots
A five-minute profile of permaculture's co-founder and his 1981 Right Livelihood Award. The best orientation before you dive in.
Food forests
Start with the Tacoma food forest story
69 fruit and nut trees on an old blueberry farm, planted by neighbours. News item 3.
Water
Then watch Village Homes soak up a flood
One minute, no storm drains, no flooding. Video 2.
Farm business
And if you farm for a living
The Profitable Farmer came out this week. New books, item 1.
Top stories and news
Published Nov 5–11, 2026. Summaries are ours; tap a title for the full story.
1 · United Kingdom
Communities, schools, farmers and parish councils can now apply for free trees under a nature recovery scheme aiming to plant more than 20,000. It supports community orchards, forest gardens, hedgerows, agroforestry and riverside planting.
2 · United States
A former vacant city lot is now an 11,000 sq ft public food forest, designed with neighbours by the Boston Food Forest Coalition, a community land trust.
3 · United States
On an old blueberry farm turned park, residents planted a three-quarter-acre food forest with 69 fruit and nut trees, choosing crops local cultural communities struggle to find in stores.
4 · Canada
A new fence at M.V. Beattie Elementary marks the next step for a school and community garden partnership: 16 community plots, a learning garden for students, and later a food forest and pollinator gardens. High school shop students are building the beds.
5 · Ghana
The Permagardens Foundation has trained thousands of families to build water-smart home gardens that keep producing beyond the rainy season.
6 · Peru
A study of 28 organic cacao agroforests found yields rose from about 265 to 1,000 kg per hectare where the surrounding landscape kept forest and tree crops.
7 · Italy
Six Lombardy wineries will test whether trees, hedges and shrubs among the vines curb erosion, bring back insects and ease heat and drought.
8 · Canada
A West Vancouver urban designer explains why dead daylily mounds and leaf piles are winter housing for pollinators, and how her neighbourhood came around to the 'mess'.
9 · United States
Lauren Craig's food forest near Xenia, planted in 2022, aims to supply about 80% of her family's food, with 30 chickens and perennials alongside annuals.
Found a new story that helped you? Suggest it here. News: published in the past 7 to 14 days.
New videos and podcasts
From the watchlist, Nov 6–12, 2026.
1 · Paul Wheaton
Gravel at the bottom of the hole and around the post keeps standing water off the wood. A cheap way to make untreated posts last.
2 · Andrew Millison
One minute: Village Homes in Davis, California shaped its land into low basins that soaked up heavy rain without flooding.
3 · Geoff Lawton
Ridges have steep, narrow valleys, so the big dam sites usually sit lower in the landscape.
4 · Paul Wheaton
The long history of heating people with thermal mass, from heated beds with a fire at one end and a chimney at the other to today's rocket mass heaters.
5 · Paul Wheaton
The 'cold plug': when the mass is colder than the outdoor air, the draft can stall. How it happens and how to fix it.
6 · Byron Grows
A short clip from Byron Austin's food forest redesign, walking the new planting alleys.
7 · The Permaculture Podcast
Scott Mann profiles the Territorial Seed founder and author whose books he recommends to anyone aiming for garden self-sufficiency.
8 · Paul Wheaton
Masanobu Fukuoka's farm through a permaculture lens: rice in summer, barley over winter under white clover, and a mandarin orchard.
9 · Permaculture Orchard Podcast
Audio episode. Stefan and grazier Greg Judy on regenerative grazing.
10 · Permaculture Orchard Podcast
Why he bought a quarter-section of mostly forest, and why his house is now too efficient for a wood stove.
11 · Regenerative Skills
Oliver Goshey talks with Niccolò Merighi of Tenuta di Spannocchia in Tuscany about breeds and practices suited to one place.
Also new: Geoff Lawton's seedling snails at Greening the Desert (Nov 4) and two more Paul Wheaton shorts on fences and log peeling. Quiet this week: Morag Gamble, Happen Films, Richard Perkins, The Permaculture Consultant, EdibleAcres and Permaculture Magazine.
Found a new video or podcast that helped you? Suggest it here. Videos and podcasts: released in the past 7 to 14 days.
New books
Released in the past month or out in the next two weeks.
1 · Out Nov 10
A five-year roadmap for a farm business that supports profit, purpose and quality of life: vision, annual plans, simple tracking, and aligning production, sales, labour and money. Jean-Martin Fortier and Ben Hartman both recommend it.
2 · Out Nov 12 · In French
A forest garden on a balcony, a courtyard or 100 m². The author of the Yalinnove YouTube channel and the École Jardin Forêt draws on three of his own plantings, including experiments in pots.
3 · Out Nov 3
Fifty favourite edible perennials, from asparagus and blackcurrants to pine nuts and oyster mushrooms, with growing advice and interviews with growers around the world.
4 · Out Oct 20
Tennessee homesteaders who grow all their family's protein share Korean Natural Farming, bokashi, silvopasture, water and energy independence, and food preservation.
5 · Out Nov 17
Outdoor science activities for children and their adults, including permaculture gardening and gathering edible and medicinal plants.
6 · Out Nov 26
The forest garden pioneer's guide, updated: an A to Z of over 100 perennial edibles, from skirret and sea kale to coppiced trees and bog plants.
Magazine · Out Oct 31
Thirty years of a climate-resilient community at Hockerton, a school courtyard that grew into a 16,500 sq ft farm, and a first-aid herb patch.
Found a new book that helped you? Suggest it here. Books: released no more than 1 month ago.
Courses and events
In date order. Free listings; nobody paid to be here.
Nov 11–15 · Online
Ten facilitated sessions, on topics like funding permaculture and succession in the movement.
Sat Nov 14 · Online
Samantha Lewis brings her three favourite cards from the gardening playing-card deck: going poo-less, cleaners you can eat, and turning dirt into soil. 10 am Mountain, noon Eastern.
Sat Nov 14 · New Zealand
Eleven open gardens, 10 am to 4 pm, including a neglected patch turned native bush and wetland haven for wildlife.
Sat Nov 14 · New Zealand
A gold-coin day on seed sowing, no-dig gardens and worm farming, with a seedling swap.
Sat Nov 14 · France
Three documentaries from 4 to 8 pm. In French.
Sun Nov 15 · United Kingdom
Volunteers plant 120 hazel, hawthorn and dog rose saplings from the Woodland Trust, 10 am to noon. Tools and gloves provided.
Nov 15 · United States
Jan 3–16, 2027, in California, led by Rhamis Kent.
Nov 24 · Online, in French
Biologist Olivier Hamant on robustness and sociologist Catherine Darrot on moving from the field to the territory. 12:45 pm Paris time.
Dec 5 · France
A free afternoon on soil life: earthworms, fungi and decomposition.
Dec 9 · Online, in French
A 5-month PDC adapted to Quebec, live by video conference.
Dec 10 · Canada
Free monthly talks through June 2027; their 10-day PDC with Kenton Zerbin runs July 19–31, 2027.
Dec 18 · France
A monthly hands-on day in the city farm's forêt nourricière, 10 am to 4 pm. This month's theme: design from patterns to details, and produce no waste.
Jan 17 · Australia
Two weeks, Jan 17–31, 2027. Early-bird price until Dec 17.
Jan 25 · Canada (Quebec)
IRDA's day on fruit trees combined with other crops, with Quebec researchers and growers. In Brossard and online. In French.
Jan 30 · Online
Eleven Saturday-morning Zoom sessions to June 6, sliding scale from £285.
Found a new course or event that helped you? Suggest it here. Courses and events: still upcoming, with a date and a way to register.
Classifieds
Real public listings, grouped by country, most listings first. Not ads.
Canada (4)
Flower and vegetable micro-farm with farm-to-table meals. Season 2027 from April, $17–22 an hour. Apply by Dec 15. In French.
Canada (4)
Roles from Food Forester to Soil Builder, April 1 to Oct 31, 2027, on a farm turning 20 logged acres into food forests. Work-trade room and meals, plus their PDC free.
Canada (4)
3.3 acres in Montérégie: a one-hectare orchard of mature apple and pear trees, with a house. $769,000 plus taxes.
Canada (4)
Bare-root fruit trees for fall and spring 2027, pickup or delivery in November or April.
United States (3)
3 places, Apr–Oct 2027, $2,000 a month with housing, no experience needed.
United States (3)
Regenerative ranching and farming in 7 western states, 8 months with housing. Applications close Dec 6.
United States (3)
For PDC graduates who want to teach: assist the spring 2027 four-weekend PDC and teach two modules. $200 and a certificate. Apply by Nov 27.
Australia (2)
Swales, orchards and food forests over 20 years in the making. $580,000–$620,000.
Australia (2)
For community groups and local governments: plants, fertiliser, garden design and training for edible community gardens.
Portugal (2)
An off-grid permaculture education centre running for 18 years opens its 2027 apprenticeship.
Portugal (2)
For PDC graduates who want to start teaching. Food, camping in the cork-oak forest and a second PDC in exchange.
Costa Rica (1)
Six months with a PDC, natural building and herbalism, for 4 apprentices. Paid program. Apply by Dec 1.
Slovenia (1)
2 to 8 months in 2027, ages 18–30: permaculture farming, natural building and the farm's water cycle. Apply by Dec 15.
United Kingdom (1)
5–6 ft apples, pears and plums on dwarf and semi-vigorous rootstocks, £17.50.
Found a new listing that helped you? Suggest it here. Classifieds: currently open (land, farm jobs, internships, nursery sales, grants).
Around the world, in other languages
English comes first, a respectful nod to Bill Mollison, who got the ball rolling. Here is what happened this week in other languages: the headline in its own language, then a short English line so everyone gets the big picture. Biggest groups first.
Português Portuguese · 6 items · 🇧🇷 🇵🇹
From rubble to agroforest: a University of São Paulo study shows how schools on the city's outskirts turned dumping lots into gardens.
Terra Sintrópica wins an award to restore degraded land around Mértola, in the Alentejo, with successional agroforests.
Paraibuna becomes a model for agroforestry and ecotourism in São Paulo's Paraíba Valley.
Video. Lesson 1, Agroforestry: a chance to regenerate the land and rebuild rural life. Lucas Machado, Sítio das Mangueiras.
Event, Nov 26. The University of Lisbon's living permaculture lab turns 10: a guided visit, a toast and a work day.
Event, Dec 2–5, São Paulo. The closing module of Sesc's urban permaculture training.
Français French · 6 items · 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇹🇳
'Nobody wanted this field': in Normandy, 500 trees planted in 2024 are turning 5,000 m² into a forest garden.
🇫🇷 Jardin-forêt aux Rigolettes : des fruits inédits et une ferme ouverte aux habitants de Saint-Baudel
A 2-hectare forest garden in the Berry, bought in late 2025: unusual fruits, Kunekune pigs and a farm open to the village.
A community forest garden is coming to Roubaix's 3 Ponts neighbourhood. First planting day: Saturday Nov 21.
Quebec City plans a mini forest in Beauport, about 335 trees and 84 shrubs, its second one.
An agroforestry caravan tours northern Tunisia from November to February, meeting farmers and community groups.
Video. He planted his first trees in 1958: a visit to the Arboretum Al Gaulhia in Corrèze.
Also in French elsewhere in this issue: the book Je plante un micro jardin-forêt; the Thionville film festival, AgroForDiv webinar, Ferme de Paris work day and IRDA symposium in Events; the Chez Aline farm job in Classifieds.
Español Spanish · 4 items · 🇨🇺 🇪🇸 🇦🇷
Permaculture that feeds a community: a family farm in Siboney, Santiago de Cuba, with its kitchen garden in zone 1, shares food with a seniors' dining room.
A European project with Aragon partners, Pyrenaf, will build an agroforestry network of pilot farms that combine trees, crops and livestock.
Family farms and the Monte Nativa cooperative in El Soberbio, Misiones, share their agroforestry experience with a research project linking Argentina and Brazil.
🇪🇸 Agroforestería Sintrópica solución múltiple ante la crisis de todo: Entrevista con Albert Tur, Ibiza
Video. Syntropic agroforestry as a many-sided answer to the 'crisis of everything': an interview with Albert Tur in Ibiza.
Deutsch German · 3 items · 🇦🇹 🇹🇿 🇨🇭
For Austria's 2027 state garden show, the Reinberg site becomes a forest garden.
Video. Permaculture on Kilimanjaro: swales that hold humus and water the soil, on Simon Mtuy's farm in Mweka.
Job. Vegetable gardener (75%) on an organic alpine permaculture farm at 1,100 m above Brienz: about 100 kinds of vegetables.
Bahasa Indonesia Indonesian · 3 items · 🇮🇩
South Kalimantan develops rubber and cocoa agroforestry in Balangan.
The forestry ministry supports food agroforestry through its FAPE-PS social forestry programme in Bogor.
Video. This farmer runs a closed loop: black soldier fly larvae feed the fish, and pond water feeds the plants.
日本語 Japanese · 3 items · 🇯🇵
'Living things make the soil, and the soil makes a life': a leader of permaculture in Japan and his circular way of living in Hokuto, Yamanashi.
Video. No digging, just poke small holes and the soil changes: why the triangle hoe is his favourite tool.
Podcast video. Morimizu Radio #8: is permaculture secretly 'black' (gruelling) work?
中文 Chinese · 1 item · 🇹🇼
Event. A permaculture talk series at the National Library of Public Information in Taichung closes Dec 13 with a free film screening. Registration Nov 11 to Dec 9.
Polski Polish · 1 item · 🇵🇱
Video. A short talk on permaculture principles.
Українська Ukrainian · 1 item · 🇺🇦
On 300 m² in Kremenets, a permaculture garden for people, birds and insects, planted Oct 26 by Permaculture in Ukraine and a local charity.
Searched this week with nothing in scope yet: हिन्दी (Hindi), বাংলা (Bengali), اردو (Urdu), العربية (Arabic) and Русский (Russian). Know a source in these languages? Tell us below.
Found a new story in your language that helped you? Suggest it here. Any language welcome: same rules as the English sections. Send the link and we add a short English line.
Suggest something for next week
This magazine is for the whole community, not a club of top creators.
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Open the formA story, video, book, event or listing, in any language. Your own work is welcome. Picks that are new and fit the Designers' Manual appear in the next issue as a community pick, with your first name and country flag.
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| Books | Released no more than 1 month ago |
| Videos, podcasts, news | Released in the past 7 to 14 days |
| Courses and events | Still upcoming |
| Classifieds | Currently open |
How this issue was made
| Sources | Every source in the 'Permaculture Review - Sources' sheet: 14 YouTube channel feeds, 3 podcast feeds, 12 Google News searches in English and French, publisher new-release pages, course and classified sites |
| Other languages | 120 Google News searches in 13 languages (Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Urdu, Indonesian, Polish, German, Japanese), each in its own words and country editions, plus 16 YouTube searches. 627 raw results, 28 items kept. English lines are our own short translations; flags show where the story happens. |
| Links | All opened and checked Nov 12, 2026. Phys.org, North Shore News and Bloomsbury block automated checks; those pages were confirmed by search. |
| Images | Real thumbnails, book covers and article photos from the original sites. If a site blocks an image, it is hidden. |
| Colors | Blue titles open articles and listings; green titles open videos, podcasts and books. |
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