A couple presents his permaculture garden in telling their philosophy of life.

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A PERMACULTURE ORCHARD

An arborist in organic farming has decided to adapt his orchard to permaculture. He explains how organized his orchard.

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A SPECIALIST IN PERMACULTURE

Sepp Holzer , a permaculteur known in Austria , explains functioning of permaculture. Here is an excerpt from the DVD  » Sepp Holzer ‘s Permaculture  » (which contains three films about Sepp Holzer : « Farming with Nature « ,  » Aquaculture  » and  » Terraces and Raised Beds  » ).

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The Inca knew it for a long time ago,

They look at natural link between life and soil

And us poor idiot we find it just now

We realize that we have everything spoil

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Do you know why permaculture is good

Just to grow and eat healthy culture

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Simply mimic and respect our nature

Product a lot in small place for feed your friend

Every life has a place in your culture

Use corretly and rationaly your small brain

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You need a lot of time and much elbow grease

Don’t use chemical against cloud of bug

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Permaculture one

The permaculture began its story in 1970 with two Australian Bill Mollison and David Holmgren. They loking for an alternative agriculture  at the industrial agriculture, searching to create an agriculture in harmony with natute in the time when industrial agriculture spread.

They made official permaculture through many books published in 1978. Permaculture One was an ancestral practice of agriculture

They look for create an agriculture in harmony with wild when the industrial agriculture broadcast (since epidemic of « green revolution »).

Picture’s Arcimboldo

The principle of permaculture it’s to grow lot of products in small place while respect and imitate natural interaction. It uses concepts of ecology, landscaping, organic farming, biomimicry, natural philosophy and Soil.

Permaculture is a way of sustainable agricultural production, very energy efficient and respectful of living beings and their relationships.

Who must be respect four main rules : no tillage, no pesticides, no fertilizer, no hoeing.

Currently the efficient fossil energy is essential !

In permaculture, preferring the mechanical energy of the living in order to preserve the environment and local wealth.

The farmer permaculture organize their productions to develop small ecosystem trying to find the benefits that nature gives spontaneously. This balance take its origin of observer’s attention and the care it provides for the harmony of its cultures continues.

Sky view of Bec Hellouin farm

At the heart of Normandy, in a Natura 2000 protected area, is a oasis of life which combines a large number of plant and animal species. About 800 differents plants are grown on the farm. The two-island garden, the mandala garden, ponds, forest-nourishing, orchards form a highly productive and sustainable agro-ecosystem.

Charles and Perrine

Charles HERVE-GRUYER was educator and at 21 he moved to 22 years of sailing on the oceans of the world. Then he became a psychotherapist before starting the project of the farm with his wife Bec Hellouin.

Perrine HERVE-GRUYER after a DEA in law dévellopement she worked as a lawyer for a major company in Asia. At 30 Perrine begins in France pscho his therapist studies.

The couple has realized in 2003 a research project « Vegetable permaculture and economic performance » in partnership with INRA, AgroParisTech, the Fondation de France, the Lemarchand Foundation for balance between people and the Earth and Léa Nature Foundation.

The tractor of Bec Hellouin

The important job’s and the method of Ferme du Bec Hellouin based on the ethical foundation of permaculture are :

Take care of the Earth.
Taking care of men.
Equitable sharing of resources and crops.
It seeks to explore a way of living on the Earth that is both kinder to nature and men. The needs of human and their welfare are considered such as plants, animals and the environment. It’s fully adapted to the post-carbon era.

Elbow grease

Farm of Bec Hellouin had the chance to get the input of organic matter through the horse riding center nearby. Their labor force is free even profitable share the paid courses that offer and their private school permaculture. For permaculture demand an enormous amount of time.

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The valley site

The farm is located 1 km from the village. This site of 1.8 hectares is composed of a forest garden where grow fruits and berries , but also from around the world.

The ponds in agroforestry gardens combine fruit trees, mounds and permanent crop strips worked in animal traction. A 600 m2 serrede carefully cultivated gardens and mounds flat A circular garden, the « mandala garden », 800 m2, is furnished with round permanent mounds, complementary flat mounds. Small grasslands help maintain the animals (draft horse, donkey, ponies, sheep) in the heart of the farm, thereby reviving the fruitful association between livestock and crops.

A cultivated area of 4000 m2 in gardening has produced 80 to 120 weekly baskets in 2011 and the margin of progress is important.

The implementation of the concepts of permaculture has created intensely productive orchards and gardens.

1,000 m2 cultivated are identified and are the subject of a study of 3 years with INRA and AgroParisTech.

The Abbey Gardens

These gardens have 12 acres of woods and steep terrain of 2.4 hectares with terraced gardens, a pasture for sheep Ouessant and a rich orchard of over 300 varieties of fruit.

Terraced gardens are grown in animal traction. Permanent mounds, oriented perpendicular to the slope, and a vineyard were also located there.

a network of small ponds to irrigate the terraces in the dry season.

The house of environment in Angers

Environment house garden

This garden is next to lake of Maine, is create in 2000 by house of enviromnent. They product a lot of vegetable, flowers and fruits in limited space. This garden is surrounded by hedges, it’s a resource of beneficial insects and a protection against wind, pollution and dryness. They applicate a system of permaculture with culture round plate in crop rotation (root, leaf, fruit, flower), with pond, orchard, greenhouse, trays with different height for aromatic and useful plants. As we see in this picture :

Picture of house environment garden

In north of England

A permaculture garden in Sheffield, Royaume-Uni

Permaculture is possible in suburban gardens european cities!!

In incas culture

Terraces in Andes

Circle terraces

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Terrace with irrigation system: corn, quinoa, sorghum, potato kiwicha.

Sakakullu

Sukakullu: This type used strips of land surrounded by ponds. Fight against evaporation under sun effect, promotes humidification of the soil for seeds and plants. At night the water freezes, fomation of protective ice cocoon around the plants against dead by freeze.

The Incas were able to adapt to the terrain and high thermal amplitudes of the Andes through the use of terrace and Sukakullu

In China

Yuangyang terraces

Flooded rice terraces allow the farming of fish, duck and cattle for traction and at the same time provide the necessary organic matter to the growth of rice. It is a form of permaculture with missing trees.

In India

Tea crop

Agroforestry in a tea plantation.

For a long time Agroforestry is used in India for tea plantation. This clever agriculture is very relevant because the implementation perpendicular to the slope of the tea culture and their trees that retain soil water, reduce erosion and protect from the sun.

In Sahara 

Oasis in the Sahara

Water resources and the space available in the oasis of the Sahara are limited. Use of mosaic garden allows optimize water and space. Millet, sorghum are the main cereals. Trees are essential in these arid environments : date palms are used for shading and retain water.Concerning the permaculture we find a lot of food in limited space produces by Oases mosaic gardens.

Lung desert