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.

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The ways in

Pick the one that fits where you are. Everything here is free, and most of it works without an account.

Upcoming eventsWorkdays, plantings, harvests and classes around the Valley. Sign up with a name and an email.See the events →
Organize a PermablitzProfessional 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 visitWorking permaculture sites in and around Phoenix, and what to look for when you walk them.Plan a visit →
Ask a questionGrowing, watering, shading, soil. The community and our team answer, and the answers stay up for the next person.Ask the community →
Community directoryContractors, nurseries, growers, markets and organizations that work the way we do. Free, no login.Open the directory →
Skill & Tool ShareOffer what you can teach, do or lend, from welding to a post driver, and ask neighbors for what you need. Free or trade.Open the Skill & Tool Share →
Donate homegrown foodMore fruit than you can use? Tell us what you have and we connect it with food rescue partners.Share your harvest →
Case studiesReal yards in Arizona, before and after, with the numbers.Read the case studies →
Blog and guidesGuides, partnerships and the thinking behind what we do.Read the guides →
Volunteer with the Phoenix Food ForestSwing 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.

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Try the watershed planner first