1. Permaculture

2. Permaculture Definition
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive systems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
It is the harmonious integration of the landscape with people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way.

4. Permaculture Ethics & Principles
Observe & Interact
Creatively Use &
Repond To Change
Ethics:
Care of Earth,
Care of People
& Fair Share
Use Edges & Value
the Marginal
Catch & Store Energy
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Links between principles
Ethics to 4,6, 8, 9, 10 expressions of restraint
1 to 7 Observe patterns
7 to 12 Patterns of change
Coupling 2 & 3 Capital & Income
2 to12 Energy pulses systems
Balance 2/3 & 10, Productivity & growth vs small, slow diverse & margins
Balance 3 & 4 Positive vs Negative feedback
3 to 5 Yield from renewable
5 to 6 Renewable pests
Balance 6 & 12 Stability maintenance vs change
8 to 11 Integrate at edges
10 to 11 Diversity to spatial diversity
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Use & Value
Diversity
Obtain A Yield
Use Small &
Slow Solutions
Apply Self Regulation &
Accept Feedback
Integrate Rather
Than Segregate
Use and Value Renewable
Resources & Services
Design from Patterns to Details
Produce No Waste

5. Principles of Permaculture
Care of the Earth
(Rebuild nature’s capital)
Care of the People
(Nurture the self, kin and community)
Fair Share
(Live simply so that others may simply live)

6. Permaculture Ideas Collect and save energy Close material loops
Layer functions
Maintain diversity
Mimic Ecosystems

7. Catch and Store Energy SIMPLE GARDEN IDEAS
Use black plastic containers for compost and rain barrels to trap heat.
Compost waste faster at higher temps
Keep water unfrozen in rain barrel

8. Close Materials Loops SIMPLE GARDEN IDEAS
Reuse fish waste to grow plants (aquaponics)
Use compost to recycle nutrients into soil
Upcycle pallets to use as planters

9. Layer Functions SIMPLE GARDEN IDEAS
Create greenhouses, which keep plants warm, out of recycled products
Make beautiful planters out of recycled materials
Use chickens tractors (weeding, fertilizing, aerating, pest control) while feeding your chickens

10. Maintain Diversity SIMPLE GARDEN IDEAS
Employ polyculture to prevent diseases and pests
Encourage natural ecosystems (feed fungi, bacteria, and insects that helps keep the system in balance)

11. Mimic Ecosystems SIMPLE GARDEN IDEAS
Use legumes and bacteria to enhance nitrogen in soil
Create environment to encourage organisms (grow mushrooms)
Use mulch to prevent bare soils

12. Resources http://permacultureprinciples.com/ http://www.permies.com/