The Gardener Magazine

PRACTICAL PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES

The story behind permaculture is interesting, and please look into it, should you feel the need. In this article, we are taking bite-sized chunks of the principles which you will see overlap quite well with any type of food gardening and applying them to 10 ideas we borrowed to make it easier and practical to do straight away.

Biodiversity

By mimicking nature, as is often done in the principles of permaculture we can learn that in one patch of natural ground, there are hundreds of different species of plants all living together in great harmony. Anyone who has ever walked a grassland and got down really low to check out a pretty flower will have noticed this mass of biodiversity. Each plant will attract different insects, pollinators, animals and birds, and

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