Permaculture (= permanent cropping) goes beyond a simple ecological agricultural production system. Its approach encompasses all aspects of daily life and connects all elements, including human beings, with each other.
Permaculture is a mix of agroecolgy, biomimicry (engineering inspired by living things), organic agriculture, pedology (soil science), landscaping and philosophy. It’s a complex system of which Nature is the primary source of inspiration.
The main idea is to integrate the work of Man into Nature, and not to shape Nature to meet the needs of man. In this way, certain agricultural tasks that some consider essential are forgotten. No more tillage, mechanical weeding, fertilizer use, pesticide application. The principle is to work only with what you have, in particular with the organic nature of the soil. This simple concept promotes diversity and opposes the uniformity induced by globalization and industrial agriculture.
Even more, an important place is given to the design of the garden, carried out after a long period of observation and in which the different parts are placed so as to optimize the available resources, the space and the displacements.
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