Welcome to the Sonoran Permaculture Guild

The Sonoran Permaculture Guild is a group of highly committed individuals who share a common vision of making our Southwest Drylands region more sustainable through Permaculture design and implementation. We are an IRS 501(c)(3) non profit under our parent organization NEST, Inc.

 Our Teaching Team puts on seasonal events, workshops, and courses in Permaculture and related disciplines, as well as offering individual consultation services. Please enjoy browsing our website.

What is Permaculture?

Permaculture is a contraction of the words permanent and agriculture, and the word has also come to represent a blending of the words permanent and culture.  Permaculture - a way to live sustainably in a region for many generations, taking care of people and taking care of the environment at the same time.

Permaculture was first developed in Australia in the late 1970’s by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren. It is now a worldwide movement for  sustainability with many thousands of projects completed in over 120 countries. 

Permaculture: the use of ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing, appropriate technology, and community development. Permaculture is built upon an ethic of caring for the earth and interacting with the environment in mutually beneficial ways.

-From the Permaculture Drylands Institute as published in The Permaculture Activist