- Topic in Gardening courses. By John Eagles.
Permaculture is an ecological design system for sustainability in all aspects of human endeavor. It teaches us how build natural homes, grow our own food, restore diminished landscapes and ecosystems, catch rainwater, build communities and much more.[1]
The word 'permaculture' is composed from the Latin words 'permanens' (persistent) and 'cultura' (household). The concept was developed in the 1970s by Bill Mollison[2] and David Holmgren[3] at the University of Tasmania.
Permaculture was developed to find solutions for the many problems caused by industrial monoculture farming. In Australia, desertification, soil erosion, pollution of groundwater by fertilizer use, overuse of pesticides and crop diseases in monoculture are widespread problems.
Permaculture focuses on natural ecosystems and small-scale food production. Permaculture is to be distinguished from organic farming because it makes more use of perennial plants and less of crop rotation and annual tillage. While organic farming is more commercially oriented, permaculture aims at small-scale subsistence farming. Subsistence farming is a form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer’s family, leaving little, if any, surplus for sale or trade.
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- Permaculture Research Topics
- Permaculture "Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that are modeled on the relationships found in natural ecologies." - Wikipedia
- Permaculture Power Blog
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- ↑ Permaculture Institute
- ↑ Bill Mollison Wikipedia
- ↑ David Holmgren Wikipedia
