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Permaculture - Or Permanent Culture


This term first came about within the context of Permanent Agriculture, focussed at the time within a group of individuals in Australia.

Since then, it has come to mean so much more - and spread globally.


It is a design technique, or design system which looks at the concept of designing towards long term sustainability, health, well-being and enhancemant of the whole.


This means the whole system, not simply that aspect of it that includes our place in the system.

A primary concept of this philosophy is to design with nature, not against.

 

Beauty, recognition of patterns, fun, laughter, joy, relationships, communication, practicality, sustainability, ceremony, respect for each other and natural systems, honouring of natural systems - all this and so much more - these all play a part in the design process.


To see ourselves as a strand in the richness and web of life, and seek to design to support this into an indefinate future.


You could speak to 100 different permaculture practioners, and each would give you a slightly different perspective according to their own sense of inspiration and passion...

In the permaculture design process is the constant challenge to design towards change.  Today's solution may be tomorrow's challenge.  To be able to recognise the need for, and benefit of change, is an intruiging concept.  To design systems that allow for this, creates a sense of space for growth and expansion of self, whilst still honouring and recognising the whole.

 

It is a fascinating, dynamic concept which can be explored and developed by any one of us.  - Wether in our backyards, or in window boxes in city apartments, or in our lifestyles and ways of relating to the world around us.