Every home can be a homestead.
Permaculture belongs in our landscapes. Cool your yard, feed your family, clean the air and more. Join or start a project today.
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.
Designing and caring for yards that work like natural ecosystems. Observe, design, install, steward, harvest, repeat.
Permascaping, the organization
Homegrown Foods, a 501(c)(3) charity, on a mission to increase food security, water security and financial independence for every resident of the Phoenix Valley. An earned-income charity: fair prices, no owners or shareholders taking a profit.
Homegrown Foods, a 501(c)(3) charity working for food security, water security and financial independence across the Phoenix Valley. Fair prices, no owners taking a profit.
Permascaping, the app
The planners, calculators, catalog and ordering on this site, free to use on a satellite map of your own yard, and the same place our clients follow their project from design to harvest.
Free planners, calculators and ordering on a satellite map of your own yard. Our clients follow their project here too, from design to harvest.
How to Start Permascaping
observe • design • install • steward • harvest • iterate • regenerate
Plant Trees With Us
Swing a pickaxe or lead a group at our next planting event with the Phoenix Food Forest blanketing the entire Valley of the Sun.
Transform Your Own Property
DIY and pro-assisted options to bring your own property to complete fruition with planning, design & install options.
Join Bulk Community Orders
F* inflation. Group orders get us the highest quality fruit trees and homegrown food at fractions of their retail cost.
Learn for Free
Workshops, content and eventsteaching all aspects of suburban permaculture and why you become intimately familiar with it.
Case Studies
Learn how we get results
A Rainwater-Fed Community Landscape for First United Methodist Church of Gilbert
This installation is open to the public! 331 S Cooper Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85233
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Harnessing the Storms: Massive Suburban Rainwater Sheetflow Control
Many years ago, Liane and David bought a gorgeous property in North Scottsdale with an expansive landscape full of Sonoran Desert native trees and shrubs… and, they unintentiona…
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Growing a Front Yard Food Forest from Scratch in Phoenix
Everybody has to start somewhere, and for us it was with Miles & Doris. While I’m still proud of the quality work we did on this project, there are a few things I’d do different…
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Natural Landscaping Vision: 13815 North 41st Place
If you’re currently in the market for a 4-bedroom updated home in the North Phoenix area, this might be the perfect opportunity for you.
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Chawn’s Rainwater-Fed Backyard Orchards in the Scottsdale Desert
Scottsdale, AZ • In partnership with Galaxy Gardens
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Turning Drainage Nightmares into Food & Water Security for Sheila H. in Scottsdale
On-site design direction: Clint Culberson, Galaxy Gardens
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Replacing Unused Lawn with a Rainwater-Fed, Native Sonoran Permascape in Tempe AZ
Tyler Post first approached Galaxy Gardens about 2 years ago, and our friend & long-time native permaculture designer Nancy Blakley produced a beautiful & functional design of S…
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Plant Recommendations
What grows best in the low desert of Arizona
Bamboo (Bambusa / Phyllostachys Clumping vs. Running Varieties)
Angelita Daisy (Tetraneuris acaulis, syn. Hymenoxys acaulis)
Fig (Ficus carica)
Barbados cherry (Malpighia emarginata)
A bushy shrub that fruits in flushes for much of the warm season. Its bright red cherries are among the richest sources of vitamin C of any fruit.
Kurapia (Phyla nodiflora)
A low flowering carpet that takes foot traffic: a walkable lawn alternative that stays green on a fraction of the water.
Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis)
Showy spring-to-summer flowers on a small native tree suited to washes, basins and reflected heat.
Mulberry (Morus alba)
Exceptional food and summer shade with moderate water. Choose a fruiting cultivar and give it room.
Queen’s wreath (Antigonon leptopus)
A vigorous heat-loving vine that covers arbors and fences with pink flower clusters through the warm season.
Meet the Dream Team
We are an earned-income charity, like Goodwill and Habitat for Humanity, which means we can charge fair market prices and do business as usual, but we have no owners or shareholders who profit from the organization.
Jérémy Chevallier
Co-Chair • Since March 2023
Founder, Executive Director & Project Lead
Tatiana Conta
Board Secretary • Since Jan 2026
HR Admin & Operations
Sylviana Belle
Board Treasurer • Since Jan 2026
Program Strategy & Operations
Christopher Macy
Co-Chair • Since Jan 2026
Founder, Phoenix Food Forest
Prachi Kothari
Architectural Design Intern
Clint Culberson
Permaculture Designer & R-21 Contractor
Aritro Majumdar
Efficiency Optimizer
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