What Is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a framework for design that integrates:
- ecological design principles
- the ethics and values of working with nature
- the detailed site-specific practical realities of life
Use your keen observation skills, imagination, and creativity to take this framework and
design solutions for the world that we live in today.
Permaculture Design Principles
- Observe and interact
- Catch and store energy
- Obtain a yield
- Apply self-regulation and respond to feedback
- Use renewable resources
- Produce no waste, recycle everything
- Design from pattern to details
- Integrate rather than segregate
- Use small and slow solutions
- Use and value diversity
- Use the edges
- Creatively use and respond to change
Permaculture Design Ethics
- Care of the Earth
- Care of People
- Return of surplus to Earth and people (also called "Fair Share")
Permaculture = Permanent Agriculture + Permanent Culture
