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About Toby:

Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, the best-selling permaculture book in the world. His book on urban permaculture, The Permaculture City, was released in July 2015.

Toby passed away in late 2016 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. This website and Toby's articles will remain live to be accessible to future generations of permaculturalists.

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Download Toby’s Free Permaculture Guide:

The 30 Most Valuable Plants for Small & Urban Yards

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Gaia's Garden

A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

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The Permaculture City

Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, & Town Resilience

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Toby’s Latest Articles:

Announcing The Toby Hemenway Memorial Library

The following message is from Erin Axelrod, Outreach Director for the Permaculture Skills Center in Sebastapol, CA: I hope your hearts are healing from the loss of our beloved Toby. We here in … Keep Reading...

Update on Toby’s Battle With Cancer

Update: December 20th, 2016: A message from Toby’s wife, Kiel: "It’s with the deepest grief that I tell you that Toby passed away early this morning, Tuesday, Dec. 20. We were both so very moved … Keep Reading...

Who Does What in the Soil

Part 3 of The Cosmos, the Earth, and Your Health – The Story of Soil In the first two episodes of this series on how soil is formed, we’ve been operating at the cosmic level, talking about the how … Keep Reading...