#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.

🇸🇿 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.