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r/Permaculture

A community for like-minded individuals to discuss permaculture and sustainable living. Permaculture (Permanent Culture) is an ecological design system coined in Australia by David Holmgren and Bill Mollison Founded 2008 · 375K members

372.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 10.4K upvotes, which works out to 28 per 1,000 members.

28peak upvotes per 1,000 members
372.7Kmembers
10.4Kbest post
277most comments
200posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

39% 22% 18% 11% 9%
Image 39% Gallery 22% Text 18% Question 11% Video 9% Link 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

look at my place! 7 🎥 video 7 self-promotion 5 discussion 5 shitpost 5 land + planting design 3 livestock + wildlife 3 ℹ️ info, resources + fun facts 2 water management 2 📜 study/paper 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Thank you Elaine Ingham for opening the eyes of the West to the fact that soil is a complex living ecosystem and not just dirt. May you rest in peace.

↑ 10.4K 💬 113 image 2026

Do metal roofs overheat birdhouses? I ran a worst-case test

↑ 6.2K 💬 274 gallery 2026

Hope for you environmental doomers.

↑ 5.8K 💬 270 video 2025

What 3 years of permaculture did to my degraded land

↑ 5K 💬 35 image 2025

I’ve been testing how spent mushroom substrate affects soil health. The results were wild.

↑ 4.5K 💬 198 gallery 2025

Add now we wait.

↑ 4.3K 💬 243 image 2022

A chemical plant (oil and other fuel additives as well as plastic container manufacturing) blew up 3 miles from my house/ food forest in Louisiana. I…

↑ 4.2K 💬 277 gallery 2025

Just bought land!

↑ 4.1K 💬 155 gallery 2025

Agrihood in Detroit

↑ 3.5K 💬 175 image 2021

Grow Food, not lawns

↑ 3.3K 💬 231 image 2021

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Permaculture, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Permaculture?
r/Permaculture describes itself this way: A community for like-minded individuals to discuss permaculture and sustainable living. Permaculture (Permanent Culture) is an ecological design system coined in Australia by David Holmgren and Bill Mollison. It was founded in 2008 and has 375K members.
How many members does r/Permaculture have?
r/Permaculture has about 372.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 200 of its posts; the biggest reached 10.4K upvotes, which is 28 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Permaculture?
"Thank you Elaine Ingham for opening the eyes of the West to the fact that soil is a complex living ecosystem and not just dirt. May you rest" reached 10.4K upvotes and 113 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Permaculture.
What subreddits are similar to r/Permaculture?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/Permaculture?
Of the posts we hold, 39% are image posts and 22% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Permaculture?
Across 200 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 00:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (1.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Permaculture?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Permaculture has 2.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Permaculture, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.