Where it is realized
1 - On-farm
Summary description of agroecological practice
Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using whole-systems thinking.
Type of agroecological practice
permaculture
Implementing the practice
Careful design using permaculture principles. Set up guilds. Adapt.
Why you use and what you expect from this practice?
It is a diverse, abundant food production system that only requires me to harvest and prune. I occasionally add diversity through grafting and replacing unhappy plants with happy ones. I also consider my main "crop" to be building healthy soil by letting leaves and plants decompose where they fall.
Land size
0.5 Acre