What are the main permaculture design principles?
Permaculture design is based on a self-sustainable holistic integrated approach to agriculture that includes humans as part of the system. It is an ethical outlook that takes into account care for the Earth, community involvement and limits to consumption and population. Devised by Australian ecologist Bill Mollison, back in the 1970s, permaculture design aims to integrate the way humans, animals and plants interact with each other in the landscape. One of the main principles of permaculture is the idea of zones. This puts the farmhouse or home at the center of a series of concentric circles with the most labor-intensive crops nearest to the center. Sectors, which are part of another approach to the same idea, divide the land as if it was a sliced pie, so that each type of activity flows naturally into and out of the center. By using the landscape as part of the design
