Permaculture ensures survival of all species while being more productive and much cheaper, long term, than monocultures.
Throw as many different seeds as you can find onto your soil.
Mother Earth is more than capable of deciding which ones sprout, and when, and why. She has created us, after all.
Sow, observe, and harvest only half of what the soil gives you, let the rest mature and return to the soil, to both fertilize and seed the soil. It’s a double win, and saves a tremendous amount of resources, money, machines, time, energy, labor… all while improving the environment.
Permaculture is how we secure our food supply, diversity of life, and save enormous amounts of money and water.
Permaculture systems do not require big expensive machines, unless you want to create swales, canals, ponds, etc. of any size, without a team of people with shovels happy to work together for the good of literally everything. It creates a safe, calm, peaceful, healing environment, and job opportunities for a huge amount of people.
Imagine the fact that vast flat monoculture acres can be transformed into abundant food forests by seeding the land, and designing walking paths made from nothing but a layer of wood chips, which, when inoculated with edible mushroom spores, provide an extra source of food.
Imagine, having to harvest mushrooms first before you can walk around, that is the abundance that matters. And it is as easy as getting all the seeds and spores you can get your hands on and designing, or asking an artist to co-design walking paths.
Swales, small canals, and ponds can be linked throughout the landscape to let rainwater sink in and provide further habitat for beneficial animals that eat pests.
Allow a limited amount of ducks and chickens to roam the land, a small amount, very small amount, so that they never run out of food and you never have to feed them, because that’s unnecessary extra cost and effort.
Greediness breeds stupidity. Always give the animals you want to keep abundant space, think in terms of passive production. The more space you give animals, the less work you have to do! Freeing up your energy and attention to focus on designing permaculture systems, but most important of all, to observe.
Observing allows one to receive new insight which can never be gained from books, which are all written in the past, while current conditions are ever changing, non-stop. Permaculture is about allowing the land to surprise you, nature responds very strongly to positive intent.
The grass is your friend, it holds an insane amount of water, provides shade, but never too much or too less because it’s so thin. It harvests a huge amount of dew as well, that slides down into the soil, and beneficial fungi thrive in conjunction with grass.
It also attracts frogs, lizards, and many other creatures that eat the ones we don’t want, while slowing down slugs tremendously, keeping them and other creatures “blind” to the vegetables.
Grass and vegetables go extremely well together, it makes no sense to seperate the two. Seperation doesn’t work long term. Let it all co-exist. It is all designed by nature to work together, and it does, if you allow it.
We don’t need to mow lawns, just throw many seeds of fruits, vegetables, herbs, trees, etc on it and let it take off on its own. Grass does not inhibit crop growth, it stimulates it!
Free food, no work, no more mowing, which means no more mowing machine, no more cost of purchase/gasoline/electricity/maintenance and no more noise!
More free time you can spend relaxing and observing.
Remember the most important bit: harvest only half and do nothing else but harvesting half of everything.
i will when i get some land of my own too.