permaculture
Permaculture is a design system for creating holistic sustainable lifestyles. By applying a set of ethics and principles to each project -- from land planning and management to business decisions and lifestyle changes, we become more conscious of how we impact the earth and are able to make positive choices for the future generations inheritance.
A Revolution disguised as Gardening!
The Core Ethics of Permaculture:
- Care of the Earth.
- Care of her People.
- Fair Share for All.
How do we practice permaculture?
- Thoughtful And Protracted Observation
- Start Small then Expand
- Whole Systems Thinking
Permaculture Principles in a nut shell:
- Work with Nature
- The problem is an opportunity
- Make the least change for the greatest possible affect
- The yield of the system is theoretically unlimited
- Everything is connected
- Relinquish power
- Unknown good benefit
- Succession of evolution
- Cyclical opportunities
- Functional design
- Stability
- Information as a resource
- Relative location
To learn more about permaculture join a workshop or hire our team of professionals to asses your land or property to implement permaculture solutions.
About the PC logo above:
This explanation is an extract from Permaculture - A Designer's Manual, the definitive Permaculture text, by Bill Mollisson
'The great oval of the design represents the egg of life; that quantity of life which cannot be created or destroyed, but from within which all things that live are expressed. Within the egg is coiled the rainbow snake, the Earth-shaper of Australian & American aboriginal peoples... Within the body of the Rainbow Serpent is contained the Tree of Life, which itself expresses the general pattern of life forms, as further elaborated in the chapter on pattern in this book. Its roots are in earth, & its crown in rain sunlight & wind. Elemental forces & flows shown external to the oval represent the physical environment, the sun & the matter from which life on earth is formed. The whole cycle & form is dedicated, as is this book, to the complexity of life on Earth.'
A brief history of Permaculure:
In the mid 1970s Australians, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren started to develop ideas about stable agricultural systems. This was a result of rapid growth of destructive industrial-agricultural methods. They saw that these methods were poisoning the land and water, reducing biodiversity and removing billions of tons of topsoil from previously fertile landscapes. They announced their "permaculture" approach with the publication of Permaculture One in 1978.
The term permaculture initially meant "permanent agriculture" but was quickly expanded to also stand for "permanent culture" as it was seen that social aspects were integral to a truly sustainable system. (more info here)