Permaculture Board Games – Top Recommendations

As first a school teacher, THEN a permaculture teacher, THEN a board game fan, I have found dozens of board games out there with Permaculture themes…

…Some are more fun…. Some more educational… Some are terrible and aren’t worth buying. Curious to hear what others have found and recommend. 🙂

I’ll start off with 2 recommendations:

1) Reykholt – I played this yesterday for the first time and highly recommend. You are a farmer in the Icelandic town of Reykholt where geothermal energy allows for greenhouses. It’s a 1-4 player worker placement game where you race to farm the most goods and sell them”.

2) Ark Nova – I’ve only played this one once as well… it’s a bit longer and more complicated, but it has all sorts of “hidden curriculum” lessons… about society, zoos, and doing good onto the world. Essentially, you try to run a zoo but you lose if you try to only do good things (like heal and release animals or do research)… and you also lose if you only try to make money (have more animals in the zoo, higher admissions, etc). The winner is the person who balances both. Zoos are quite a controversial topic… this game lets to dive right into that + topics like financial sustainability. And you will learn all about different animals.