The Permaculture Promise: What Permaculture Is and How It Can Help Us Reverse Climate Change, Build a More Resilient Future on Earth, and Revitalize Our Communities

Nitrogen is a limiting nutrient in many soils, meaning that it is often in short supply and may be the first nutrient to limit a plant’s growth. And since it is water soluble, nitrogen can easily be leached out of soil

conditions are degrading rather than improving.

Permaculture has its own set of ethics, and they are threefold: earth care, people care, and fair share. The

Permaculture: A way for humans to consciously design systems that support ourselves — food production, energy, buildings, transportation, technology, even human relationships and financial systems — while acknowledging our roles as equal, co-creative members of natural ecosystems with the ability to regenerate our environment while we’re providing

If we can build — or rebuild — connections to each other, to the land, and to the systems that support us, we can, perhaps, contribute to a growing worldwide web of interrelationships.

The answer, I think, lies in building relationships.