Permaculture Library

The land-design sources Steward OS is trained on. Direct links to public ethics, principles, water, soil, plants, grazing, climate, and appropriate-technology resources.

Read the land. Design with it. Keep the yield.

Every item opens the original external resource. Part of Resources, with the Civilizational Knowledge Library.

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Permaculture Knowledge

Direct links to the public sources Steward OS uses for land design: ethics and principles, water, soil, plants, grazing, climate, and appropriate technology. No local subpages — every item opens the original resource.

Ethics, principles & design language

Permaculture Principles — Holmgren’s twelve design principles, ethics, and flower of permaculture.
Holmgren Design — Primary source for the principles and Essence of Permaculture.
Permaculture Association — Education, research, and practice resources.
Permaculture Research Institute — Global case studies and design articles.

Agriculture, soil & food systems

FAO Knowledge Repository — Soils, crops, livestock, forestry, and food systems.
ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture — Practical production guides for farms and homesteads.
SARE — Farmer-tested research on soil, grazing, and diversified production.
USDA National Agricultural Library — Agricultural science and historical practice.
NRCS Soils — Soil health, infiltration, and conservation practice.
USDA National Agroforestry Center — Windbreaks, silvopasture, riparian buffers, alley cropping.
Plants For A Future — Edible and useful plant database.
USDA PLANTS — North American plant identification and range.
Seed Savers Exchange — Seed-saving technique and variety stewardship.
USDA GRIN-Global — Crop germplasm and variety data.

Water on the land

FAO Land & Water — Watershed, irrigation, and soil-water guidance.
NRCS Conservation Practice Standards — Ponds, diversions, grade control, wetland and grazing specs.
USGS Water Resources — Hydrology, groundwater, and surface-water science.
EPA Soak Up the Rain — Rain capture, infiltration, and stormwater basics.
WHO WASH — Drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Appropedia — Swales — On-contour infiltration earthworks.
Appropedia — Check dams — Slowing concentrated flow in drains and draws.
Appropedia — Rainwater harvesting — Roof catchment and storage.
Oasis Design — Greywater — Household water reuse through soil and plants.
Keyline Designs (Yeomans) — Landform-based water harvesting and soil building.

Animals, grazing & fertility

SARE — Building Soils for Better Crops — Organic matter, rotation, and fertility.
ATTRA — Livestock & pasture — Poultry, ruminants, and pasture systems.
NRCS Prescribed Grazing — Rotation, rest, and carrying capacity.

Climate, maps & cold-climate place

Climate Atlas of Canada — Local climate and future-scenario maps.
Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation — Provincial crops, irrigation, and land resources.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada — National research, soils, and climate services.
Natural Resources Canada — Maps — Topography, geology, and earth-science layers.
Alberta Geological Survey — Provincial landform and subsurface data.

Shelter, energy & appropriate technology

Whole Building Design Guide — Building physics and site-integrated structures.
Building Science Corporation — Moisture, insulation, and cold-climate envelopes.
Open Building Institute — Open-source building systems.
Appropedia — Appropriate-technology wiki: water, energy, sanitation, food.
Low-Tech Magazine — Pre-industrial and low-energy techniques.
Open Source Ecology — Open industrial machines for small civilization-scale production.
Engineering for Change — Field-ready infrastructure and water solutions.