What Is Permaculture?

The basics.

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History

Principles

  • Observe and interact: the purpose isn’t to bend nature to one’s will, but to work alongside it.
  • Catch and store energy: make sure to collect resources when you have too much of it (eg: water) to use them when they become rarer.
  • Obtain a yield: focus on techniques that provide substantial results.
  • Apply self-regulation and accept feedback: Discourage inappropriate activity to ensure that systems function well.
  • Use and value renewable resources and services: Use renewable resources and avoid using finite ones.
  • Produce no waste: Re-use as much as you can. Waste nothing.
  • Design from patterns to details: Look at what nature does and reuse these patterns.
  • Integrate rather than segregate: design a system where different elements relate to one another.
  • Use small and slow solutions: Small and slow systems are more sustainable.
  • Use and value diversity: Diversity reduces system-level vulnerability to threats and fully exploits its environment.
  • Use edges and value the marginal: the most interesting things happen in the border between things.
  • Creatively use and respond to change: A positive impact on inevitable change comes from careful observation, followed by well-timed intervention.

Results

Conclusion

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