Permaculture Gardening
Peace for the Heart and the Soul

Used for therapeutic gardening and for those seeking self-sufficiency, gardens using permaculture principles provide the perfect setting for a meditation garden.

With permaculture, you have a green living garden, designed to reflect the natural patterns and relationships that are found in nature.

For example, you might find herbs, garden vegetables and native wild flowers in the same garden bed.

Because of permaculture's close relationship with nature, this kind of garden lends itself naturally to having a corner that could be used as a meditation garden.

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Permaculture is covered by three ethical principles:

• to care for the earth
• to care for the people
• to limit consumption and redistribute abundance

Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the word in the mid-1970s to describe an integrated gardening system. During the 1970s, they issued a number of publications on permaculture.

The emphasis of permaculture is on designing one’s own environment and, in doing so, moving closer and closer to self-sufficiency.

Basic Design for a permaculture garden

There are 12 design principles that assist in designing, establishing, managing and improving organic sustainable gardens.

1. Observe and Interact
2. Catch and Store Energy
3. Obtain a Yield
4. Apply Self-Regulation and Accept Feedback
5. Use and Value Renewable Resources and Services
6. Produce No Waste
7. Design from Patterns to Details
8. Integrate Rather than Segregate
9. Use Small and Slow Solutions
10. Use and Value Diversity
11. Use Edges and Value the Marginal
12. Creatively Use and Respond to Change

This style of gardening brings us closer to nature and teaches us to live in harmony with it, recognizing the necessity of the integrated system.

Permaculture strategies offer techniques for us to grow edible plants to meet our needs while allowing other species to meet theirs.

The ethical principles also teaches us to be responsible for our situation in life, rather than allowing or blaming all external influences for events in our lives.

By taking responsibility, we learn to make changes personally, and in our environment. And we improve our life, relationships, health and well-being.

When you immerse yourself in sustainable gardening, living green, you relax your mind and get gentle physical exercise.

You also grow organic edible plants which improves your body's immune system, helps it to rejuvenate and maintain well-being.

Permaculture gardening is the perfect stress reliever hobby.

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