David Holmgren

Permaculture, RetroSuburbia – Australia

David is the other original “co-founder of Permaculture” and also co-author (with Bill Mollison) of the book, “Permaculture One,” published in 1978, which inspired the entire movement. Bill and David lived together for a period of three years, collaborating on their garden and developing the basis for the work that has inspired so many of us.

David has written 8 more titles, since, including “Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability” in 2002. More recently, he wrote the book Retrosuburbia to lay out a path for the current permaculture transition of our suburbs to abundant regenerative agriculture and holistically-integrated systems of life, matter and energy.

To see more, visit https://holmgren.com.au/ or https://retrosuburbia.com/. We were fortunate to have David join us for the Drylands Permaculture course, where he joined our class over video. Here is the link to that discussion.