People's Choice AwardsNumber 6
Sean Dembrosky is the owner and operator of Edible Acres, a popular
youtube channel which doubles as a
permaculture nursery and forest farm research space. He focuses on ways to grow food with human scale earth working and low technology solutions.
Permaculture People You Could Know (but might not know already)
Edible Acres - youtube channel
Edible Acres - permaculture nursery
Number 5
Allan Savory has spent his life researching and finding solutions for the desertification of the world’s grasslands. His methodology, Holistic Management, provides a framework for managing the complexities of the living world, while utilizing a grazing planning procedure that regenerates grasslands and can reverse desertification. His book, "
Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment" describes his effort to find workable solutions ordinary people could implement to overcome many of the problems besetting communities and businesses today.
Savory Institute
Savory Institute - facebook
Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment - book
Number 4
Ben Falk is the author of the award-winning book the
Resilient Farm and Homestead. He developed
Whole Systems Design as a land-based response to biological and cultural extinction and the increasing separation between people and elemental things. Life as a designer, builder, ecologist, tree-tender, and backcountry traveler continually informs Ben’s integrative approach to developing landscapes and buildings.
Whole Systems Designs
Ben Falk - youtube channel
Resilient Farm and Homestead - book
Number 3
Bryant Redhawk holds a PHD in Microbiology and is best known for his
Soil Science Series on permies.com. These articles explain the importance of healthy soil microbiology to having a thriving garden ecosystem, and give specific advice on how to apply this knowledge to your garden. He and his wife live on 15+ acres in the woods, where they continue their own research both in Agriculture and soils with the hope to make the world more like it used to be, before mankind began screwing up the Earth Mother.
List of Dr. RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads
Number 2
David Holmgren is an Australian environmental designer, ecological educator and writer. He is best known as one of the co-originators of the
permaculture concept with
Bill Mollison. David is passionate about the philosophical, conceptual and practical foundations for
sustainability, and his book "
Principles and Pathways" is regarded as a major landmark in
permaculture literature.
Holmgren Design
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability - book
Number 1
Joel Salatin calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. He is co-owner of
Polyface Farms, which producing meat he describes as "beyond organic", and are raised using environmentally responsible, ecologically beneficial, sustainable agriculture. He has been featured in news stories,
books, conferences, and documentaries showcasing his regenerative agriculture through rotational grazing.
Polyface Farms
Musings from a Lunatic Farmer - blog
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front - book
Number 10
Mark Shepard is the CEO of
Restoration Agriculture Development, the
Forest Agriculture Nursery and runs
New Forest Farms, a 110 acre
perennial agricultural savanna, one of the first of its kind in the USA. He is the author of the award-winning
Restoration Agriculture: Real-world Permaculture for Farmers and Water for ANY Farm.
Restoration Agriculture Development
New Forest Farms
Restoration Agriculture - book
Forest Agriculture Nursery
Number 9
Brad Lancaster is an expert in the field of rainwater harvesting and
water management. He is also a
permaculture teacher, designer, consultant, co-founder of
Desert Harvesters, and author of "
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond"
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond - book
Desert Harvesters
Number 8
Eric Toensmeier is the award-winning author of many books, including "
Perennial Vegetables" and "
The Carbon Farming Solution" and is the co-author of "
Edible Forest Gardens." He is an appointed lecturer at Yale University, and has studied useful perennial plants and their roles in agroforestry systems for over two decades, and cultivates about 300 species in his urban garden.
Perenial Solutionshttp://www.perennialsolutions.org
The Carbon Farming Solution
Project Drawdown
Number 7
Rosemary Morrow is one of the pioneering women in
permaculture: for almost 40 years she has worked extensively with farmers, villagers and refugees. She is known and appreciated for her pragmatic and effective approach to creating permaculture systems across a very broad range of environments, such in SE Asia, the Middle East, India and, East Africa. She focuses on taking permaculture to communities who wouldn't normally have access to it and how to meet needs, with abundance, for water and food security, and successful sustainable farming models, no matter the situation
Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute
Earth User’s Guide to Teaching Permaculture - book
Number 6
Toby Hemenway was an American author and educator who wrote extensively on permaculture and ecological issues. He was the author of "
Gaia's Garden" and "
Permaculture City."
Gaia's Garden is an affordable, accessible, informative introduction to permaculture, and is usually the first book people read on the subject. Through his books, lectures, and
magazine, he brought ecological design and sustainable culture to a large segment of society.
Toby Hemenway
Gaia's Garden - book
The Permaculture City - book
Toby Hemenway
Number 5
Willie Smits is a forestry engineer, microbiologist, conservationist, animal activist and social entrepreneur. For over thirty years Smits has been working for reforestation and the conservation of endangered primate species such as the orangutan. He is currently using sustainable agriculture, reforestation, and forest monitoring to reforest more than 500,000 acres of degraded tropical rainforest.
Masarang Foundation
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation
Number 4
Paul Wheaton is a powerful advocate of permaculture. He was dubbed the Duke of Permaculture by both Geoff Lwaton and
Sepp Holzer, and The Bad Boy of Permcaulture by Occupy Monsanto. Paul is the owner of
permies.com,
coderanch.com, richsoil.com, and
Wheaton Labs. He has produced over
400 podcasts, a multitude of
youtube videos and multiple DVDs, has presented at over 100 events around the US, and has written dozens of articles and a book. The events he hosts at his property,
Wheaton Labs, have resulted in rocket stoves and ovens, massive
earthworks,
solar dehydrators and and many other permaculture innovations.
Paul Wheaton Permaculture and Homesteading Stuff
Building a Better World in Your Backyard - book
Paui Wheaton - youtube channel
Number 3
Geoff Lawton is a permaculture, farmer, film maker, designer, consultant, educator and aid worker, for over 30 years has specialized in permaculture education, design, implementation, system establishment, administration and community development. Lawton's aim is to establish self-replicating education demonstration community share
project sites and he has educated over 25,000 students in Permaculture worldwide.
Discover Permaculture with Geoff Lawton - YouTube
Zaytuna Farm
Discover Permaculture
Permaculture Research Institute
Number 2
Sepp Holzer is a farmer and author of several books who works nationally as permaculture-activist in the established agricultural industry, and works internationally as adviser for ecological agriculture. He specializes in cold climate and desert permaculture, especially at high-latitudes and steep slopes, utilizing
hugelkultur and earthworks to create productive
land from that which was previously considered "unfarmable."
Sepp Holzer Permaculture - main site
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture - book
Sepp Holzer Permaculture -English
Number 1!
Bill Mollison is considered to be the Father of Permaculture. Mollison not only coined the term "permaculture," he wrote the the permaculture bible, titled "Permaculture - A Designer's Manual," and also founded the The Permaculture Institute in Tasmania. As a researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist, he spent decades of his life devoted to understanding, teaching, and furthering permaculture around the world.
Permaculture: A Designer's Manual - book (USA) (Australian site)
Bill Molison's Permaculture Design Course video
The information on how both the People's Choice and Maestro permaculture leaders were selected can be found
here.
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