Permaculture principles

Permaculture isn't about is having to get your head around untold facts, figures, Latin names and complicated techniques, rather it is about recognising universal patterns and principles, and learning to apply these ‘ecological truisms’ to our own gardens and life situations. We can identify the underlying forms that recur throughout the natural world and learn to understand and utilise them in designed ecologies...

Permaculture design principles include:

'Mollisonisms'

These are sometimes described as the 'attitudinal' principles of permaculture, and include;

David Holmgren's permaculture design principles

These restatements of the principles of permaculture appear in Holmgren's recently published Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability [1];