What is Permaculture?
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Permaculture is a contraction of the words ‘permanent’ and ‘agriculture’ or the words ‘permanent’ and ‘culture’, as cultures cannot continue for long without a sustainable agricultural base or land-use ethic (Mollison).
Permaculture tools involve a kind of cultivated ecology, but permaculture is really about the relationships we can create between different things in a landscape, allowing that landscape to sustain itself. Permaculture is based on the observations of natural systems that allow us to build a personal relationship with the land that we live on.
While this may sound too involved to apply to a simple garden or landscape, remember that natural ecosystems function productively and sustainably without interference. By designing our garden or landscape as a cultivated ecosystem, we put ourselves in a position to receive the maximum benefit that our property can provide. Not only are we setting a sustainable, self-regulating system in place, we are tuning that system to bring your dreams to fruition.
Permaculture tools involve a kind of cultivated ecology, but permaculture is really about the relationships we can create between different things in a landscape, allowing that landscape to sustain itself. Permaculture is based on the observations of natural systems that allow us to build a personal relationship with the land that we live on.
While this may sound too involved to apply to a simple garden or landscape, remember that natural ecosystems function productively and sustainably without interference. By designing our garden or landscape as a cultivated ecosystem, we put ourselves in a position to receive the maximum benefit that our property can provide. Not only are we setting a sustainable, self-regulating system in place, we are tuning that system to bring your dreams to fruition.
