Permaculture

Edible Acres is one of the strongest permaculture channels on YouTube, covering food forest design, perennial planting, and soil-first growing practices in a way that is both practical and deeply grounded in permaculture principles. He walks you through real planting decisions on his own land, explains the reasoning behind each choice, and shows you the long-term results of a food forest approach over multiple seasons. If you want to understand how permaculture works in practice, not just in theory, this is the channel.

Paul Wheaton is one of the most well-known voices in permaculture education and his YouTube channel - alongside his Wheaton Labs project - is a deep resource for anyone serious about learning permaculture design. He covers everything from earthworks to natural building to food forest establishment to the philosophy behind designing human systems that mimic natural ecosystems. His channel is for the person who wants to go deep on permaculture, not just sample the surface.

Willows Green Permaculture covers practical permaculture homesteading in a hands-on format that shows you the real work of establishing and maintaining a permaculture system on a real property. The channel covers food forests, water harvesting, composting, and the year-by-year progression of a permaculture project in a way that gives you realistic expectations about what it takes to build a self-sustaining food system.

Freedom Forest Life documents the design and development of a permaculture food forest, covering the decision-making process, the plant selection, and the long-term establishment of a system designed to produce food with minimal ongoing labor. The channel covers permaculture design principles in a real-world application that shows you both the vision and the patient work required to bring a food forest to productive maturity.

David the Good is a published permaculture author and educator who covers food forests, tropical fruit trees, composting, and permaculture gardening practices that work in warm climates. His channel is one of the more established authorities in the permaculture YouTube space, with a library built over years that covers the full range of food forest establishment from soil preparation through species selection and long-term management.

The Forest Gardener covers food forest establishment and permaculture design with over 410,000 subscribers and a catalog focused on showing the real process of converting land into a productive food forest over time. His channel documents the multi-year journey of establishing a food forest system - the early work, the setbacks, and the gradual transformation of the land - which gives you a realistic picture of what food forest development actually looks like across a realistic timeline.

Geoff Lawton is one of the most credentialed permaculture educators in the world - a student and teaching partner of Bill Mollison, the founder of permaculture - and his YouTube channel is a free entry point into his deep library of permaculture instruction. He covers permaculture design principles, food forest establishment, water harvesting earthworks, and the global application of permaculture in diverse climates and contexts. If you want to learn permaculture from one of its most authoritative teachers, this channel is where to start.

James Prigioni covers organic gardening and food forest development with nearly 1.9 million subscribers - one of the largest gardening audiences on YouTube - built around consistent, practical instruction on growing food using natural systems. His channel bridges the gap between conventional vegetable gardening and permaculture, covering organic soil building, companion planting, and the gradual development of a more self-sustaining food garden. His high production quality and consistent publishing make his channel one of the most watchable and educational in the gardening space.