Permaculture is a set of design principles foundational to whole systems thinking, simulating, or directly utilizing the patterns and resilient features observed in natural ecosystems.
Permaculture has many branches that include but are not limited to ecological design, ecological engineering, environmental design, construction, and integrated water resources management that develops eco-responsible food abundance, and reGenerative and self-maintained habitat and food abundance modeled from Earth's ecology.
Permaculture Design
Permaculture design emphasizes patterns of landscape, function, and species assemblies. It determines where these elements should be placed so they can provide maximum benefit to the local environment. Permaculture maximizes useful connections between components and synergy of the final design. The focus of permaculture, therefore, is not on each separate element, but rather on the relationships created among elements by the way they are placed together; the whole becoming greater than the sum of its parts.
Permaculture design, therefore, seeks to minimize waste and energy input by building systems with maximal benefits between design elements to achieve a high level of synergy. Permaculture designs evolve over time by taking into account these relationships and elements and can become extremely complex systems that produce a high density of food and materials with minimal input.
