If you are going to make conversation with permaculture pros from around the world learn these permaculture principles and you will always have something to talk about.
This principle, observe & interact encourages us to take the time to observe a situation before applying a solution. Through observation, we are able to understand the patterns and relationships between various elements of the situation.
Growing your own food at home is a great way to catch and store energy from our sun.
Make sure that every time you design a house, garden, park, or school, it includes elements that will provide real tangible yields. The yields could be food, fibres, or fuels, but there needs to be something.
This principle requires us to be open, to see and accept both the reality of the result of our actions (or inactions) and listen to and consider criticism from others.
Permaculture design aims to make best use of renewable resources to create, manage and maintain high yielding systems, even if some non-renewable resources are needed to establish the system in the first place. (Read More)
By valuing and making use of all the resources that are available to us, nothing goes to waste.
We have to look at the big picture before we get bogged down in the details.
Plants work well in diverse systems – we see the way nature does things and follow her lead.
Whenever we try to do too much too soon, it’s easy to become overwhelmed. Slow and steady wins the race.
Diversity reduces vulnerability to a variety of threats and takes advantage of the unique nature of the environment in which it resides.
If the most productive bit of woodland is the edge, then design it to have a bigger edge. These ideas are used in alley cropping, shelterbelts and pond design. Marginal could be ideas, views, unusual plants, wild animals or people at the 'edge' of society.
'the only thing we can be certain of is change' and when it comes to any system that will ring true. Change is an opportunity to grow and more often than not change creates opportunities for new things.
Now Join the conversation with Elizabeth Wadington a real permaculture pro
.Elizabeth is a writer and green living consultant with a smallholding in rural Scotland. When not writing, she can be found growing vegetables or tending to rescue chickens in her fruit-filled forest garden. She's passionate about permaculture and sustainability and works on projects all over the world. Reach out and connect.
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