Permaculture is the conscious design of cultivated ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems using native plants or those that are well adapted to the region. Permaculture integrates people into the landscape in such a way that the land grows in richness, productivity and beauty. The Permaculture Institute of North America supports students and experienced practitioners of permaculture in North America and Hawaii.
Why? Growing food using nature’s rules rather than the brute-force rules of the industrial food chain is easier and often less expensive.