A helpful gateway for permaculture courses, services, and resources. The Portal is also the online home for our extraordinary permaculture site on Orcas Island. For over 20 years, we have applied our shared experience to create what experts refer to as the finest permaculture site in North America. Together we develop and implement practical solutions for sustainable living while offering hands-on, accredited permaculture design courses.

The Kootenay Permaculture Institute is a centre for research and education in ecological living. It was formed in 1991 to develop a model for research and education in the field of sustainable living in British Columbia, Canada. The Institute is designing and implementing permaculture principles and techniques on a ten acre piece of land in the Slocan Valley. It is an ideal site for people to come to learn and practice permaculture.

This web site exists to help people interested in permaculture within Aotearoa to keep in touch and share information. Site includes a forum for queries and replies, a list of coming events, classified ads, reading list.

The Permaculture Project works to help build the proper eco-skills necessary in all areas of life. Our vision is to make sure that all of our students and clients are eventually able to read directly from the very Book of Nature herself. Care and love of the environment are at the core of our work: ethics and values grow naturally out of these practices: care of the earth, care of people, ethical surplus distribution, building an ecological-human support base.