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Website maintenance for TobyHemenway.com (and Toby’s former site PatternLiteracy.com before that) has been provided by Kane Jamison since 2011. Kane is a Washington-based permaculturalist who also operates Insteading.com, and is a former student of Toby’s. He continues to maintain Toby’s website so that future generations of permaculturalists can read Toby’s essays.

About Toby Hemenway

Toby Hemenway is the author of The Permaculture City and Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. Toby passed away in 2016 and this website is maintained to keep his writing available to future students of permaculture.
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The Permaculture City

The Permaculture City, available now.

The Permaculture City begins in the garden but takes what we have learned there and applies it to a much broader range of human experience; we’re not just gardening plants but people, neighborhoods, and even cultures. Hemenway lays out how permaculture design can help towndwellers solve the challenges of meeting our needs for food, water, shelter, energy, community, and livelihood in sustainable, resilient ways.

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