Permaculture permanent agriculture

permanent culture

Developed in 1970’s by Australians Mollison & Holmgren, a design system for environmentally friendly food production

Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive systems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of the landscape with people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Graham Bell, The Permaculture Way

Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions rather than asking only one yield of them & of allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions. Bill Mollison

The focus of Permaculture design is on the relationship between all the individual elements and their placement in the landscape, to form stable, productive communities that replicate the synergy and efficiency of natural ecosystems, rather than the individual elements themselves. http://deepgreenpermaculture.com/

Ethics

PeopleCare

FairShare

Earth Care

Earth care

• Work with nature• Oppose destruction and damage• Consider choices we make• Aim for minimal environmental impact• Design healthy systems to meet out needs

People Care

• Look after ourselves & others• Working together• Assist those who still don’t have access to

food and clean water• Develop environmentally friendly lifestyles• Design sustainable systems

Fair Share

• Resources are limited and only by curbing our consumption and population will there be enough for all now & in future

www.wwoof.org.uk/

• We live off grid with compost loo. We run an organic veg. box scheme and use bio-dynamic preparations and principles. We have about half an acre of garden, acre of orchard and 6 acres of pasture. we have 2 Dexter cows, a calf, three sheep and ducks and hens, and a sense of humour (hope we don't sound too hard core!) Accommodation in Yurt. Have little wind-generator to put up, saving up for PV, turf-roofed veg. store under construction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3R1BZVnD4M

http://www.camphillfamily.com/?p=1

What is Care Farming?

• Care farming is the therapeutic use of farming practices.

• Utilise the whole or part of a farm • Provide health, social or educational care

services for one or a range of vulnerable groups of people

http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/

Flower of interactions

Compost loo

Sustainable heating

Food store

Terminology

• Edge• Layers, vertical growing• Zone• Multiple outputs• sector• Succession• Relative location• Polycropping• guild

Visioning

Your street, area or city

Action Plan

• Think about something from map that inspired you or perhaps-

• what you eat and where it comes from• how you travel• your home and garden• your money and how it is spent

Web resources

• These are the sites that have a wealth of information• http://www.tagari.com/ Bill Mollison • http://permaculturecairns.com/billmollisonpermacult

urevideos.html• http://www.permaculturecairns.com/ • DesignedVisions Permaculture - Ecological Solutions • http://patrickwhitefield.co.uk/index.htm • www.Urban Permaculture Guild.org/• Michael & Julia Guerra-urban permaculture

Books

• The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka• The Earth care manual Patrick Whitefield• Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature... by

Martin Crawford• Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting...

by Joseph C. Jenkins

• Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide