BASIC

PERMACULTURE design

Permaculture is thousands of years old. The underlying principle is to disrupt nature as little as possible, to observe what is already present and to design by understanding the nature and topography of a place. 

Permaculture is based on care for the Earth and its people. Taking from Mother Earth only what we need and having a design that helps us to enrich and replenish our ecosystem. 

Everything in a permaculture system should be completely
self-maintaining. 

· Observe and interact/see what is there in the context.

· Plan for wind patterns, water run off, sun disposition, fire hazards,
animals and other species, etc.

· Catch and store available energy

· Obtain a yield that matches our energy

·  Be self-regulatory and accept feedback/ respond to system changes

·  Use and value renewable resources

·  Produce no waste

·  Design from patterns to detail/ use natural systems as a model

· Integrate rather than separate/ acknowledge interconnections

· Find small slow solutions that produce real changes over time

· Use and value diversity

· Create edges and value the marginal/ where the oceans meet the shore/
where the fields meet the forest

· Use and respond to change creatively/ accept the dynamic nature of
reality/ work with what’s going on/ be flexible and adapt to changing
conditions

· Acknowledge multiple functions of each unit 

· Focus on solution-based thinking and understand that the problem
usually contains the solution

· Optimize to get the most out of each input