PDC LESSON 1.17 PROXIMITY PRINCIPLES

 

PERMACULTURE COURSE AGRO-ECONOMY

PDC LESSON 1.17 PROXIMITY PRINCIPLES

Grow food where people live; Bring food production back to the city.

“Permaculture aims to bring food production back to urban areas, and to redesign or retrofit buildings to save and generate their own energy, using well known energy saving strategies and techniques of appropriate solar design for climate, weather proofing, wind-power, trellis, insulation, low-cost transport and cooperative power generation”

Through stacking and using niches an intensive food production system can be established in a very small area, such as an appartement balcony, you can assist in bringing food production back to the city by supporting local growers, helping at the community garden, planting your verge with fruit trees and vegetables, or by joining a guerrilla gardening group.

Be aware of “food miles” and grow what you can. Turn your suburb into a market garden.

Text from the roots, Mollison, Holmgren, Brat Pritchard 



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