Collection of Permaculture Resources Under Free Licenses

Open Source Seed Initiative

“The Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) is dedicated to maintaining fair and open access to plant genetic resources worldwide.”

Practical Plants

Very nice project, basically a fork of the PFAF-Database but editable and focused on community and practical use.

Mixed Licenses

Plants For A Future

A registered charity that compiles a database featuring over 7500 plants with a focus on perenials.

They have names, images, uses, etc. It’s quite amazing.

PlantBuddies

“Plant Buddies is an easy to use tool that helps you with companion planting.”

OpenSourceSeeds

Licenses seed varieties under an open-source seed license, so they stay a commons and can’t be privatized through patents or plant variety protection.

Pl@ntNet

Identify plants from a photo and contribute to a citizen-science project on plant biodiversity.

iNaturalist

A community for recording and identifying plants and animals. Observations are shared with scientific biodiversity databases.

Open Source Ecology

Super successful worldwide Open Source Hardware project. Look at the Global Village Construction Set. Wow!

Farmhack

“An open source community for resilient agriculture”
This nice little video explains the concept. Has nice projects and a lively community.

farmOS

Free and open source web application for farm management, planning, and record keeping.

L’Atelier Paysan

A French cooperative publishing open designs for farm tools and machinery that farmers can build themselves.

Only available in French.

Open Food Network

Open source platform that lets farmers and food hubs sell directly to their local communities.

Permaculture Association

“Find out about permaculture ethics, principles, design approaches and useful information about over 200 practical solutions!”

 

Appropedia

Appropedia maintains a list of Permaculture Wikis and is also one of the most active Wikis in this space.

PermaWiki

Nearly 250 articles can be found on PermaWiki, which is hosted on Fandom

Wikipedia

The world’s largest encyclopedia also has some articles about Permaculture.

Serlo Sustainability

Serlo.org is an education platform that offers Applied Sustainability as an subject.

It’s far from complete but some nice articles. Mostly German!

Soil and Health Library

“Health begins in the soil”
Their vision is to make works available that empower people to grow their own food, be healthy and think for themselves.

Most of the books are out of print, some are in the public domain, but be careful: There’s still a lot of copyrighted material as well.