International Permaculture Day

And today is International Permaculture day!

Two garden related days in a row, woo hoo!

For those unaware of what permaculture is, it's short for 'permanent agriculture,' a term first coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in 1978. Although it's been expanded now to mean 'permanent culture,' since there are social aspects to this as well as physical.

"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system." - Bill Mollison

I like to think of it as 'super lazy gardening that's better for the environment.' Basically, figuring out what is going to happen in your garden, naturally, and make it work for you.