permaculture
Every article and hero in Arborpedia that touches this subject.
№ 095GrowingCompanion Planting Guide
Which plants grow well together, which fight, and how to design beds that suppress pests and feed each other.
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№ 170GrowingDesigning a Food Forest
How to stack seven layers of edible woodland that feeds you for decades while slowly shedding the chores of an annual garden.
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№ 178EcologyFruit Tree Guilds: Self-Fertilising Systems
Design plantings around a fruit tree so nitrogen fixers, dynamic accumulators, ground covers, and pest confusers feed the system and reduce inputs every year.
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№ 223GrowingHugelkultur: Building Soil with Buried Wood
Hugelkultur mounds bury logs under soil to hold moisture, release nutrients slowly, and produce food for two decades or more.
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№ 351GrowingPermaculture Design: Zones, Sectors, and the Principles Behind Them
The design framework itself — zones by visit frequency, sectors for incoming energies, and why the principles are a checklist rather than a philosophy.
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№ 474WaterSwales on Contour: Passive Water Harvesting
Design and build contour swales that catch runoff, recharge groundwater, and turn dry hillsides into productive land.
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Bill Mollison
Australia · 1928–2016
Tasmanian bushman, scientist and teacher who turned a critique of industrial agriculture into a design system taught in over 140 countries.
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David Holmgren
Australia · 1955–present
The student who co-wrote Permaculture One at 23 and later distilled the system into twelve design principles used worldwide.
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Geoff Lawton
Australia · 1954–present
Australian permaculture educator who proved that even the harshest degraded landscapes can be rebuilt into productive food forests.
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Sepp Holzer
Austria · 1942–present
Austrian farmer who grew citrus at 1,500 metres in the Alps by rebuilding his mountainside into terraces, ponds and raised beds.