Category: Permaculture Principles & Theory
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Reduce Holiday Stress with Permaculture for a Serene Season
The holidays can be a lot. Between the shopping, planning, and family dynamics, stress can easily overshadow joy. But what if the natural world had some wisdom to offer? Permaculture—a design system inspired by nature—might seem like it’s all about gardens and growing food. Yet, its principles are surprisingly useful for navigating holiday chaos. Let’s…
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Permaculture in Everyday Life: Applying Principles in the Garden and Beyond
Opportunities for using permaculture in everyday life—beyond just the garden—are all around us, if you know where to look. While permaculture is often seen as a common-sense, down-to-earth approach to gardening, its principles can be applied to many other areas of life, possibly even all of them. We don’t need to use the term “permaculture”…
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Permaculture Principles in Everyday Life Part 4 – Principles 10, 11, and 12
Welcome to the final post in this series on permaculture principles in daily life. This time we’re looking at the final four permaculture principles: “Use and Value Diversity,” “Use Edges and Value the Marginal,” and “Creatively Use and Respond to Change.” If you’re interested in reading the first three posts, here they are for easy…
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Permaculture Principles in Everyday Life: Part 3 – Principles 7, 8, & 9
Welcome to Part 3 of this four-part series on the twelve principles of permaculture in everyday life. In Part 3, I’ll cover the seventh, eighth, and ninth principles of permaculture, which are ‘Design from Pattern to Detail,’ ‘Integrate Rather than Segregate,’ and ‘Use Small and Slow Solutions.‘ I’ll go over each principle, giving a brief…
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Permaculture Principles in Everyday Life: Part 2 – Principles 4, 5, & 6
This is Part 2 of a four-part series about the Permaculture Principles in everyday life. Here in Part 2, I’ll cover Permaculture Principles four, five, and six, which are Apply Self-Regulation and Accept Feedback, Produce No Waste, and Use Renewable Resources and Services. I’ll go over each principle, giving a brief explanation, an example in…
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Permaculture Principles in Everyday Life: Part 1 – Principles 1, 2, & 3
The Permaculture Principles, sometimes called the Permaculture Design Principles, are a set of concepts or tools used to provoke thought and guide the design process of any project, organization, or endeavor. Depending on which permaculture teacher you follow, the principles may vary in number and wording. In this series, I’ll refer to the twelve Permaculture…
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The Three Permaculture Ethics in Everyday Life
The holidays are over, it’s the beginning of a new year, and I think it’s a great time to start a new series on my blog. Over the next few weeks, I’ll cover some basics of permaculture. Today we’ll start with the three Permaculture Ethics: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair share. I want to…
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Land Acknowledgment Statements: What Are They and Should You Write One?
This post is the story of my introduction to Land Acknowledgment statements. My opinion of them has shifted over time as I’ve read multiple perspectives from both Native and non-Native people. Along the way, I’ve tried to express my love for the land as a non-Native white American, in a way that doesn’t diminish Native…
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A Tribute to Christopher Alexander: Farewell to a Great Thinker
This week I want to write a little bit about an important figure in both architecture and permaculture who recently passed away – architect, urban planner, and author, Christopher Wolfgang Alexander. He died at the age of 85 on March 17, 2022. This tribute to Christopher Alexander is my way of saying “thank you” to a…
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What Everyone Ought to Know About Permaculture
What is Permaculture? Find out exactly what permaculture is and why it’s so important for our common future.