Permaculture - E-book - PERMACULTURE DESIGN PRINCIPLES
PERMACULTURE DESIGN PRINCIPLES
In all designs and plans, there are principles to be observed. In Permaculture these are:
- Observe and interact
- Catch and store energy
- Obtain a yield
- Apply self regulation and accept feedback
- Use and value renewable resources and services
- Produce no waste
- Design from patterns to details
- Integrate rather than segregate
- Use small and slow solutions
- Use and value diversity
- Use edges and value the marginal
- Creatively use and respond to change
Permaculture - Wild Olive Guest Farm:
Permaculture is both a lifestyle ethic as well as a design system which utilizes a systems thinking approach to create sustainable human habitats by analyzing and duplicating nature's patterns (ecology).
The word 'permaculture', coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren during the 1970s, is a Portmanteau-style contraction of permanent agriculture as well as permanent culture.
Permaculture is also about careful and contemplative observation of nature and natural systems, and of recognizing universal patterns and principles, then learning to apply these 'ecological truisms' to one's own circumstances in all realms of human activity. Please call me on Tel: +27+28-7542719 or e-mail me to order my permaculture course book enquires@wildolivefarm.co.za.
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