The Urban Farm is dedicated to finding as many ways as possible to grow food in the cities.  We do this on a local level in Phoenix, Arizona with our Urban Farm Fruit Tree Program.

The program was created by founder Greg Peterson 25 years ago to educate people about the most effective ways to grow fruit trees in the desert after he found out that most nurseries and every big box door would sell someone a fruit tree that would never make fruit in our climate.  

Over the past 25 years we have educated tens of thousands of people and sold over 80,000 fruit trees.  we recently assembled over 40 years worth of content for growing fruit trees in our program called Root Camp.  It can be found at UrbanFarm.org/RootCamp

Greg Peterson did his first PDC with Tim and Vicky Murphy in 1991 in Phoenix Arizona. In the following years, he facilitated bringing the same course back to Phoenix. Then in 2006 along with Don Titmus, they created the Phoenix PDC. 

Since 2006, Don and Greg have offered in several different ways yearly PDC’s.  The urban Farm offers a dryland version of it and it happens every February March and April.  You can find more information about it at UrbanFarm.org/PDC

Greg has always been very vocal about getting the word out regarding Permaculture. His main push since 1991 is to get people into studying permaculture and into a PDC.  

He does this through regular introduction to culture classes that they offer online and through his ongoing urban farm podcast.  The podcast currently has over 850 episodes that have been released since 2015 with well over 5 million listens.  you can find out more information at UrbanFarmPodcast.com 

Greg is also the recipient of a PINA certificate in media.

Greg’s Bio

“What if there was a garden and fruit tree in every yard?” This is a question that Greg ponders every day.  For over 32 years he created on of one of Phoenix’s first environmental showcase homes for urban farming.  

The 1/4-acre yard featured a primarily edible landscape with over 80 fruit trees, rainwater and greywater harvesting, solar applications, and extensive use of reclaimed and recycled building materials.  What we now call an Old Growth Food Forest.

He is the founder of UrbanFarm.org and the host of The Urban Farm Podcast that has over 800 episodes.  The podcast is designed to help fulfill Greg’s passion of spreading the word about growing your own food and sharing new and seasoned gardeners’ epic stories.

The School of Permaculture Design at Pacific Rim College provides robust curriculum in permaculture design, pairing comprehensive classroom and hands-on training with courses in business planning and project management, community development, natural building, and food and medicine systems. The centerpiece of the school’s offerings is a 10-month, full-time Permaculture Design and Resilient Ecosystems Diploma program, the first of its caliber and scope in the world.

The school is proud to host a preeminent roster of permaculture instructors and practitioners, including PINA co-founder Jude Hobbs.

For more information, please visit:

https://www.pacificrimcollege.com/faculties-programs/school-of-permaculture-design/

EAT teaches a wide range of courses, from introductory classes for beginners to advanced classes for experienced permaculturalists and specialized classes for professionals working in the field. In collaboration with PINA, EAT offers an advanced dipoma in Regenerative Land Management.

With an understanding of historic injustice and a dedication to making permaculture accessible to those on the front lines of climate, food, and social justice struggles, EAT offers scholarships to indigenous
people and people of color.

Join EAT and become a skillful advocate for People Care, Earth Care, and a fair, just, and thriving future.

For more information, please visit:

[1] https://earthactivisttraining.org/
[2] https://earthactivisttraining.orga/regenerative-land-management/

Pikes Peak Permaculture, Inc. is a non-profit, educational organization with the following mission:

To provide education and instruction to the general public on the nature, ways and benefits of the discipline of Permaculture;

To provide education and instruction to the general public on the ethics, principles and applied technologies of the discipline of Permaculture;

To provide information resources to the public on similar and related organizations;

To act as a local, regional, national and international hub for the general education, advancement, and evolution of the discipline of Permaculture;

Pikes Peak Permaculture was founded in 2002  by Gary Deetz, Bonnie Willow and Becky Elder. In 2009 Gary and Bonnie moved to the Ashville, North Carolina area and are busy building an organization called School of Peace.

CCPP’s main activity is the Permaculture Incubator Program (PIP)—like a small business incubator, only for regenerative agriculture.

A house with 2.5 acres of prime farmland in central Michigan has been purchased where CCPP can implement its Incubator Program. Trainees will live in the house and will be assigned a half-acre plot each. They will receive instruction in regenerative agriculture from world-class permaculture experts and will put what they learn in the classroom into practice on their plots.

The trainees will sell their produce in the local Farmer’s Market and will be encouraged to share their abundance with the local food bank. The Soil Inventory Project will help us to measure the amount of carbon that we are able to sequester. And we will learn what grows best in extreme weather conditions.

After a couple of years, the trainees will have saved enough money to make a down payment on a farm of their own, lease some farmland, or buy a piece of farm machinery. And a new group of trainees will be inducted into the program.

For more information, please visit:
https://www.climatechangepermacultureproject.org/

See more on about GRLPI on the Regional Hub page.

For information on PAN, visit our Regional Hub page.

Go on a free virtual tour of Beacon Food Forest today: https://www.edgeperma.com/beaconfoodforest