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Introduction Plan drawings for a herb spiral. Permaculture has its origins in the designs of produce gardens, farms, houses and communities, and so the examples and references in texts are dominated by such. This book aims to provide a theoretical overview of permaculture to serve as a starting point for the research and application thereof. Contents References Wikilinks Related books Other Resources. Permaculture 101 Permaculture Emerges From the Underground. And the trenchers, far from being , had paid $1,300 to $1,500 for the privilege of working their spades on a cement-skied Tuesday morning in late June.
Fourteen of us had assembled to learn permaculture, a simple system for designing sustainable human settlements, restoring soil, planting year-round food landscapes, conserving water, redirecting the waste stream, forming more companionable communities and, if everything went according to plan, turning the earth’s looming resource crisis into a new age of happiness. It was going to have to be a pretty awesome ditch. That was the sense I took away from auditing four days of a weeklong Permaculture Design Certificate course led by Wayne Weiseman, 58, the director of the Permaculture Project, in Carbondale, Ill. The movement’s founders, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, coined the term permaculture in the mid-1970s, as a portmanteau of permanent agriculture and permanent culture.
“It’s an ecological theory of everything,” Mr. Permaculture, Mr.