Permaculture Energy Conserving Rules

Permaculture



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Permaculture is a set of design principles centered on whole systems thinking simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and resilient features observed in natural ecosystems. It uses these principles in a growing number of fields from regenerative agriculture, rewilding, and community.


Several individuals revolutionized the branch of permaculture. In 1929, Joseph Russell Smith added an antecedent term as the subtitle for Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture, a book which sums up his long experience experimenting with fruits and nuts as crops for human food and animal feed. Smith saw the world as an inter-related whole and suggested mixed systems of trees and crops underneath. This book inspired many individuals intent on making agriculture more sustainable, such as Toyohiko Kagawa who pioneered forest farming in Japan in the 1930s


In Australian P. A. Yeomans' 1964 book Water for Every Farm, he supports the definition of permanent agriculture, as one that can be sustained indefinitely. Yeomans introduced both an observation-based approach to land use in Australia in the 1940s and the Keyline Design as a way of managing the supply and distribution of water in the 1950s. 


In the late 1960s, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren started developing ideas about stable agricultural systems on the southern Australian island state of Tasmania. 


Among some of the more recognizable names who received their original training within Mollison's PDC system would include Geoff Lawton and Toby Hemenway, each of whom have more than 25 years experience teaching and promoting permaculture as a sustainable way of growing food.




 Energy Conserving Rules



1. Place each element plant animal or structure so it serves two or more functions
2. Every important function water collection fire protection is served in two or more ways.
3. Elements are places according to intensity of use or zones, control of external energies sectors and efficiency of energy flow.
4. Using biological resources is a long term investment and is a key strategy for recycling energy and developing sustainable systems. 
5. Photovoltaic cells solar water heaters plastic pipes have used non renewable resources in their manufacture, and we can use this effectively to produce our own energy on site.
6. Dill fennel daisies and marigold placed around the garden beds and in the orchard attract predator insects insects which feed on parasite pests.
7. Ponds in the garden attract insect eating frogs.
8. Thorny shrubs provide habitat for insectivorous birds.
9. A community supported by a diverse permaculture is independent of the distribution trade and assured of a variety diet, providing all nutritional requirements while not sacrificing quality or destroying the land that feed it.
10. Permaculture systems seek to stop the flow of nutrient energy off the site and instead turn them into cycles, so that for instance kitchen wastes are recycled to compost, animal manure are directed to bio gas production or to the soil, household grey-water flows to the garden, green manure are turned into the earth, leaves are raked up around trees as mulch. 
11. At regional scale, sewage is treated to produce fertilizer to be used on farmland in the district. 
12. Good design uses incoming natural energies with those generated on site to ensure a complete energy cycle.
13. The goal of permaculture is not only to recycle and therefore increase energy but also to
14. Cath store and use everything before it has degraded to its lowest energy sun water wind manures at its highest possible use then its next  highest and so on.