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permaculture inspiration for the home gardener

Permaculture is the finest guide for sustainable, organic food gardening. It is a complete ‘system’ that ultimately becomes self-generating, with synergies between environment, plants, animals and people so that nothing is wasted.

It’s about benefitting all forms of life, about caring for and cooperating with the environment so that we can live in a healthy world. What a way of life to aspire to!

In its purest form, permaculture (short for permanent agriculture) is beyond the reach of most urban food gardeners. For one thing, it requires space, such as a sizeable plot, to accommodate the animals, orchards, beds for rotational growing and land contouring

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