Philadelphia Home Gardening Examiner: Permaculture - a viable solution to the threat of industrial ag induced disease
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The Garden Path
Permaculture is "one of those words" (well okay, I can't really think of any other word like it) that will likely yield a different definition from each and every Permaculture practitioner asked to provide one.
Wikipedia defines Permaculture as,
"an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in the natural ecologies."
You can read more about the origins of this design philosophy & the visionary gentlemen that devolped it here.
Permaculture strives to mimic nature, in form and function, and to create TRULY sustainable systems.
A natural system (a forest, for instance) undergoes gradual changes in structure over time, a process known as "ecological succession", whereby one plant community is supplanted by another (usually as a result of differences in shade tolerance).
Utilizing "biomimicry", we can attempt to replicate biological succession in our own landscapes-- working with nature, no longer exerting energies trying to fight her. The resulting landscape is easy to care for, inexpensive & requires very little (if any) outside "inputs" in the form of fertilizers, pesticides and our valuable water resources.
In future posts I will attempt to provide you with some very simple, low-cost techniques to set you on the right garden path...
Wikipedia defines Permaculture as,
"an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in the natural ecologies."
You can read more about the origins of this design philosophy & the visionary gentlemen that devolped it here.
Permaculture strives to mimic nature, in form and function, and to create TRULY sustainable systems.
A natural system (a forest, for instance) undergoes gradual changes in structure over time, a process known as "ecological succession", whereby one plant community is supplanted by another (usually as a result of differences in shade tolerance).
Utilizing "biomimicry", we can attempt to replicate biological succession in our own landscapes-- working with nature, no longer exerting energies trying to fight her. The resulting landscape is easy to care for, inexpensive & requires very little (if any) outside "inputs" in the form of fertilizers, pesticides and our valuable water resources.
In future posts I will attempt to provide you with some very simple, low-cost techniques to set you on the right garden path...
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