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Permaculture ( permanent agriculture ) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.
Permaculture design is a system of assembiling conceptual material and strategic components in a pattern which functions to benefit life in all its forms.
The philosophy behind permaculture is one of working with rather than against, nature; of protracted and thoughtful observations rather that protracted and thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions, rather than asking only one yield of them; and allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions.
Link : www.permaculture.org.au
