Video 7min 43sec. An introduction to permaculture design principles featuring a stunning, abundant food forest.
Permaculture is a design science based on three simple ethics: care for the earth, care for people, and share the surplus.
Permaculture also has core principles that guide us in creating sustainable abundance. Nature is our model in Permaculture. The meander of a river teaches us how to design a path.
Permaculture is always looking for connections and flows, designing relationships, looking at where things are in relationship to one another - like putting the plants and the herbs that we need most often closest to the house, catching water and storing it up high in the landscape so we can gravity feed down.
Permaculture favors biological resources over fossil fuels or heavy chemicals.
Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that are modeled on the relationships found in natural ecologies.
Permaculture is sustainable land use design. This is based on ecological and biological principles, often using patterns that occur in nature to maximise effect while minimizing wasted energy.
Permaculture aims to create stable, productive systems that provide for human needs, harmoniously integrating the land with its inhabitants.
This could evoke the fruits of paradise... but we are simply in the Valley of Santiago practically at the heart of Mexico, before the plants of Don José Carmen, a modest farmer, who can revolutionize farming.
Video (2min 10sec) The Amazon rainforest is our natural defense against Global Warming. But 18,000 acres are destroyed each day. The planet needs the rainforests. Now the rainforest need you.
