UMass Permaculture Garden

A unique and cutting-edge sustainability program, UMass Permaculture provides empowering hands-on education and leadership training, community engagement, and fresh, local, organic produce to the UMass campus.

Founded in 2010, the initiative maintains five productive, educational edible gardens on campus. Gardens are located outside 4 Dining Commons and the Chancellor's home. They use permaculture design principles.

Permaculture is defined as "A design system for creating ecological and edible landscapes, low-impact buildings, and sustainable communities and economies. It is based on thoughtful observation of the patterns and relationships found in nature, and provides a set of ethics and principles to help us transition our communities, campuses, and culture beyond sustainability and toward regeneration and resilience."