Permaculture
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture is an approach to human migration, settlement, and land management as observed in flourishing natural ecosytems. It applies the principles of regenerative animal farming, rural site preservation and planning, rewilding, hunting, fishing, and community sustainability that aligns with and works with the wisdom of nature inclusive of animals, plants, sun, moon, soil, microbes, and water.
These practices were common knowledge to natives and aboriginals for hundreds of thousands of years and were usurped in the last 10,000 years by powerful, narrow-minded, greedy kings, queens, pharaohs, emperors, and colonial robber-barons who raped the earth and the women and created agro-industrial civilizations stealing, hoarding and capitalizing the resources with no regard to the liberties of other human beings, life of the plants and animals, or the health of the planet.
Leaders of the modern day Permaculture movement are Franklin Hiram King, Joseph Russell Smith, Toyohiko Kagawa, P.A. Yeoman, Bill Mollison, and David Holgren.
Permaculture Ethics:
- Care for the Earth: Provisions for all life systems – animals, plants, humans, water, soil, and microbes to continue to live in balance
- Care for People: Provisions for humans to access resources to live in balance with the rest of the natural world
- Set limits to population, consumption, and reproduction to conserve resources and share surpluses.