Quotes About Permaculture

mechanisms for dealing with extremely sandy, excessively well-drained soils or rocky, cold soils in which moisture is limited for months at a time. Try alfalfa, aloe, artichokes, asparagus, blue hibiscus, chives, columbine, eucalyptus, garlic, germander, lamb's ear, lavender, ornamental grasses, prairie turnip, rosemary, sage, sedum, shrub roses, thyme, yarrow, yucca, and verbena.

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance

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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.

The average yard is both an ecological and agricultural desert.

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

hugelkultur, a method of burying logs in earthen mounds as the basis for gardens, a nifty function-stacking that stores nutrients and moisture in the soil while sequestering the carbon of waste wood that might otherwise be burned.

at the heart of permaculture lay a gorgeously empathetic view of human nature: people aren't inherently wasteful and greedy, but fall into those patterns because of the temptations of the modern world.

The aim of forest garden design is to make the relationships as co-operative as possible, while acknowledging that very few plants will yield quite as much as they would if they were living alone. It is the cumulative yield of all the plants living on the same piece of land that makes forest gardens productive, not the high yield of individuals.