Edge Perma

09/30/2026

If we sound like a broken record, it’s because this really is one of the garden’s greatest hits. 🌿

Speaker after speaker talks about the peace, hope, meaning, connection, and healing they’ve found in the garden. Andrew Tuttle (Andrew Tuttle) from Edge Perma (Edge Perma) is writing a whole memoir about it. My Ancestors’ Hands, My Elders’ Dreams comes out in early 2027 and follows the gardens and communities where he found a love of learning, then a reason to teach.

Today he farms, teaches permaculture at Edmonds College, and stewards Pragtree Farm in Arlington, Washington. He also co-founded Edge Perma, which films farms with drones and 360 cameras so anyone can tour them for free from home.

He’s joining us live inside ⁕ Not Your Average Garden Club ⁕ Thursday, Oct 1 at 10 AM PDT for Growing More Than Food: Finding Hope and Belonging in the Garden.

If you’ve ever wondered why so many people talk about the fulfillment they’ve found in the garden, this is the one. Andrew will share stories from the book and answer the question: what if growing food could also help us discover where we belong?

Comment GARDEN CLUB below or grab the link in bio to join us.

Send this to someone who’s into growing things (while growing themselves).
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09/09/2026

Wendell Berry at the Agriculture for a Small Planet Symposium July 1, 1974

Footage courtesy of The Berry Center

09/08/2026

What if the future of farming could help create a healthier planet and a more peaceful world? 🌱

Regenerative agriculture, has the potential to restore our soils and ecosystems, strengthen our communities, and build a more resilient future.

What does regenerative mean to you?

09/08/2026

Check out our free online learning community! We would love to see you in there :)

A learning community for people using storytelling and education to help heal the Earth.

09/07/2026

Deer are a constant challenge in our region. It can be incredibly difficult to establish young fruit trees.

Our fence usually keeps them out, but recently theirs a young buck who figured out how to sneak in.

Let me know if you want updates on this cute lil guy. I’ll try to remember to record our next encounter.

09/04/2026

Wendell Berry’s speech at Agriculture for a Small Planet Symposium July 1, 1974. Footage from the Berry Center.

The talk that inspired the Tilth movement.

09/02/2026

Rest in peace, Wendell Berry. Your words will continue to inspire generations of farmers, educators, and land stewards.

Footage courtesy of The Berry Center.

09/01/2026

Yesterday, the world lost Wendell Berry. This was the talk that helped catalyze the Tilth movement in the Pacific Northwest.

https://youtu.be/t1tioiBrZRE?si=UjLzAnvstnWWJKPS

We all owe Wendell our gratitude for inspiring the movement toward more resilient and just food systems.

The following is from the caption of this video, posted in 2014:

"Today marks the 40th Anniversary of Wendell Berry's speech about the culture of agriculture that was delivered at the "Agriculture for a Small Planet" Symposium in Spokane, Washington. The first few lines of this speech, written on a yellow legal pad in route to the symposium, inspired his book The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture published in 1977. Berry's speech was also a catalyst for the launch of the Tilth Movement in the Pacific Northwest.

"Your symposium, as well as a lot of other meetings I've been to in other parts of the country, proves the literature of a thoughtful and even known constituency for a better kind of agriculture," wrote Berry in a letter to Gigi Coe and Bob Stilger following the Symposium (July 4, 1974)."

08/31/2026

Acres of grass became a food forest 🌳

In 2021, we built a virtual tour of Beacon Food Forest to show the world what’s possible in a city.

Since then, the site has grown so much that the virtual tour is basically a time capsule now. The garden includes native plants, fruit trees, and free food for anyone who needs it, all growing on land that used to be nothing but a lifeless hillside of grass.

This is what food justice and ecological restoration can look like when they grow together.

Here, people have access to plots of land to cultivate nutritious crops for their families and communities. Garden visitors can also sample and harvest perennial crops, free to enjoy including a few that are even ripe right now, like aronia, elderberry, apples, Asian pears, and autumn olive.

Take the virtual tour to learn more about the permaculture systems at BFF, and come visit in person if you’re in the Seattle area!

Virtual tour link: edgeperma.com/bff

Do you agree that land access to grow food is a human right?

How can we build more spaces like these in your city?

02/11/2026

Thanks Permaculture Institute of North America!