– the website for the Sonoran Permaculture Guild and Sonoran Permaculture Inc.

What is Permaculture?

Permaculture is a contraction of the words permanent and agriculture and permanent and culture. Permaculture is 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 uses ecology as the basis for designing sustainability into food production, housing, appropriate technology, and community development. It is  a worldwide movement for regenerative design and implementation with many thousands of projects completed in over 120 countries. As Permaculture designers we study the patterns found in nature and the lessons found in natural ecosystems. We follow these patterns in designing and implementing home sites, farms, and neighborhoods, as well as less tangible structures like community economics and food distribution systems.

We ally with other organizations to plan and create a sustainable future. Our Permaculture sites are located in Tucson, Arizona. Come join us on this journey.

Our sites are located on ancestral Tohono O’odham land and the land of all cultures that have called the Tucson basin home. Paleo-Native people hunted game and gathered plants here as early as 10,000 B.C.E.