Permaculture is a modern term referring to the use of ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing, appropriate technology, and community development. Permaculture is built upon an ethic of caring for the earth and interacting with the environment in mutually beneficial ways. Permaculture practitioners design human systems based on natural ecosystems. In this Section we explore not just what permaculture means but how its principals can be implemented in almost every aspect of our life.
Edible Forest Gardens: Part 1: Why?
Written by Trent Rhode Tuesday, 06 January 2009 12:24
Yields have gone up, but this is mostly thanks to new technologies and increased exploitation of the environment. Even in an era of mass soil erosion and destruction of vital ecosystems, modern industrial agriculture still persists in the idea that nature can be controlled and forced into productivity. This can’t go on much longer. But what can we do?
