Maximising the Edge
Abridged from The Basic of Permaculture Design by Ross Mars. Nature is full of patterns and shapes. You can find intricate spirals in sunflowers and galaxies, hexagons in bee hives and circles in rain drops and winds. Mathematical shapes like squares, prisms and rectangles are rare in nature. They may occur in some chemical crystal […]
Principles of Permaculture
-Ross Mars Background While Bill Mollison and David Holmgren are both recognised as co-originators of permaculture their seminal text Permaculture 1 did not discuss any overarching principles on which permaculture was based. Not did Permaculture 2 which was published in 1979 by Mollison alone. It wasn’t until 1991 that Mollison first discussed the principles of […]
What Is Permaculture?
-Ross Mars The term permaculture is a combination of the words permanent and agriculture. It can also be thought of as a combination of the words permanent and culture, incorporating all aspects of human beings and human settlements. Permaculture deals with our existence on this planet and it encompasses many different aspects of this. Firstly, […]
September Newsletter
Kaya – Welcome! The Witchcliffe Permaculture Group is a community of people who share a love of gardening, nature and culture. Many of us live or soon will at the Witchcliffe Eco Village in south-west Western Australia and are proud to be part of one of the world’s most sustainable residential communities founded on permaculture principles. Some of us live in surrounding regions and some of us live on the other […]