Community
Every home can be a homestead. Nobody does it alone.
Workdays to join, a Permablitz to organize, sites to visit, people to ask, and a directory of everyone in the Valley who works the way we do.
Next up
- Phoenix Food Forest Community Permablitz: Citrus & Pollinator Guild PlantingSunday, October 25, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Phoenix
The ways in
Pick the one that fits where you are. Everything here is free, and most of it works without an account.
Upcoming events
Workdays, plantings, harvests and classes around the Valley. Sign up with a name and an email.See the events →
Organize a Permablitz
Professional design, materials and a certified lead, with friends and neighbors doing the work. Most of the result for a fraction of the cost.How a Permablitz works →
Key sites to visit
Working permaculture sites in and around Phoenix, and what to look for when you walk them.Plan a visit →
Ask a question
Growing, watering, shading, soil. The community and our team answer, and the answers stay up for the next person.Ask the community →
Community directory
Contractors, nurseries, growers, markets and organizations that work the way we do. Free, no login.Open the directory →
Donate homegrown food
More fruit than you can use? Tell us what you have and we connect it with food rescue partners.Share your harvest →
Case studies
Real yards in Arizona, before and after, with the numbers.Read the case studies →
Blog and guides
Guides, partnerships and the thinking behind what we do.Read the guides →
Volunteer with the Phoenix Food Forest
Swing a pickaxe or lead a group at the next planting event with the Phoenix Food Forest, blanketing the entire Valley of the Sun.About the partnership →
Why a community, not just a service
A yard that grows food and catches rain is a skill set, not a purchase. Skills spread fastest when people work side by side.
Permascaping, the verb
The practice of designing and stewarding outdoor spaces that mimic natural, self-sustaining ecosystems. Observe, design, install, steward, harvest, iterate, regenerate.
Permascaping, the organization
Homegrown Foods, a 501(c)(3), on a mission to increase food security, water security and financial independence for every resident in the Phoenix Valley. An earned-income charity: fair prices, no owners or shareholders taking a profit.
What that means for you
Free planners for your own yard, workdays where you learn by doing, bulk orders that bring fruit trees in at a fraction of retail, and people nearby who have already done what you are about to do.
Start with your own yard
A free account gives you a property, the planners, the events board and the question board. It is also how you host a Permablitz or post a workday of your own.