#permaculture

🇦🇺 Australia · CERES (Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies)

A former quarry and rubbish tip beside Melbourne's Merri Creek is now an 11-acre free public urban farm, nursery and environmental education hub.

🇪🇨 Ecuador · Red de Guardianes de Semillas del Ecuador

Of more than 300 maize varieties Ecuadorian researchers catalogued in the 1960s, this farmer network has been able to find only about 50 still growing, and it is replanting them one season at a time.

🇸🇿 Eswatini · Guba

Guba teaches Swazi families to turn small homesteads into thriving, chemical-free food gardens that boost nutrition and income.

🇸🇬 Singapore · Edible Garden City

A social enterprise turning rooftops, malls and void decks across Singapore into working farms so a food-importing city can grow its own greens.

🇬🇺 Guam · Guåhan Sustainable Culture

A BIPOC women-led nonprofit is rebuilding CHamoru food sovereignty on an island that imports over 90% of what it eats.

🇺🇸 United States · Land Together

Formerly the Insight Garden Program, this nonprofit teaches incarcerated Californians permaculture and ecological literacy, cutting three-year reincarceration to a fraction of the state average.

🇩🇪 Germany · Prinzessinnengarten Kollektiv Berlin

A grassroots collective turned a rubble-strewn Berlin vacant lot into a mobile organic garden, and is now doing it again on a former cemetery in Neukölln.

🇪🇬 Egypt · SEKEM

A biodynamic farming initiative outside Cairo has spent nearly five decades proving that Egypt's desert can be turned into living soil without a drop of synthetic chemicals.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · SOILS Permaculture Association Lebanon

A Lebanese permaculture NGO teaches Syrian refugee families to grow food in micro-gardens using recycled grey water, cutting reliance on food aid.

🇦🇺 Australia · Seed Savers Foundation (The Seed Savers' Network)

One of the world's longest-running grassroots seed-saving movements, linking more than 100 volunteer-run Local Seed Networks across Australia to keep heirloom food-plant varieties alive in home gardens.