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

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.

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

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

conditions are degrading rather than improving.

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