What is Permaculture? (And Why Should I Care?) 

Permaculture could be most easily described as opposite to monoculture. Development of human civilization moved along upward curve, as agricultural technics allowed higher yield for less input, letting populations grow and freeing manpower to do other things (like construction, technological advances and warfare). Modern agriculture is highly mechanized, focusing on producing one type of plant or animal food, trying to maximize outputs and minimizing inputs for profit. It is also breaking ecological cycles, degrading soils, relying heavily on fertilizers and abundance of water, drought and flood inducing, unsustainable and not profitable. Permaculture or regenerative agriculture is all about maximising outputs by working with nature; learning, understanding and mimicking natural cycles; building soils and abundance of life. It is also trying to bring people closer to nature, or vice versa: nature closer to people, by making them more involved with natural cycles and where their nutrients are coming from. Aboriginals of Australia and native tribes of the Amazon are some of the greatest permaculturists, with wealth of knowledge gained over the millennia, but they're being left behind by technologically advancing world around them.

Great work! Permaculture can sometimes be difficult to explain to people but you did a brilliant job at articulating what it's all about :)

Permaculture has been cultivated by Native Americans for hundreds of years. This isn't something new and we as a society should embrace this more.

Always love how beautifully your videos are edited

Many people already have defended those systems to the death, ultimately we need to defeat imperialism if we wish to live on this planet.

I was watching a Wix tutorial when I heard about Permaculture. Absolutely brilliant! I even downloaded this video. It's exactly what I want to do with some kiddos I love.

Glad OCC started making longer videos, wish this one was longer.

Okay, part of this video seemed neat, the designs and such are cool. It would be really helpful if you wouldn't wait halfway through a video to give us an example of a permaculture setup. And in the example of the Purple Pear Farm you didn't say anything about how "each natural system feeds off of each other" which would have been really helpful. Also, you mentioned that the City Repair Project has ecologically minded projects that help reinvigorate local community relationships and the natural world" but you didn't give us any examples of how they helped do this, which makes people less likely to think that permaculture can make an impact.

Going back to the wisdom of first nations thriving with nature not against it

the fact they thought people were feeling despair in regards to climate change in 2017... boy oh boy does 2021 have it in for them. There is literally not one day where I don't think about what a dire situation we are in and how inescapable it is at the moment.

Thankful for this wonderfully edited and easy to grasp information. I plan to share this with my students!! Thankyou OCC!

Beautifully crafted presentation. Thank you for sharing this,

This is a great summary of Permaculture! Tis not easy to do. One gripe I've always had is with the 3rd core ethic of "fair share". Those two words do such a poor job on explaining the ethic. Though, "responsible and ethical redistribution of surplus" is a lot less catchy and marketable.

This video was too vague, or perhaps permaculture is defined too vaguely. At the end of watching this video twice, I am just as unclear about what Permaculture is practically.

WELL DONE!! Superb definition & presentation! Much love!!

Cool video! I love the Derrick Jensen quote!

Well done. Thank you!

Absolutely wonderful presentation and research! I subbed after the first 20 seconds of watching this. What editing software are you using?

Thank you for sharing the name/author of the background music!

I can barely hear what you are saying because the background music is too loud. Can you turn down the music?

Fair share is not the third ethic. Please check with the manual. Just what are you trying to do here?

Informative presentation for newcomers to the permaculture world

Loved the presentation. Which software did you use?

can you please explain what the diffrence between permaculture, agriculture and holticulture?

Working WITH instead of against nature. 🌳

Music too loud, distracting (:-(

So msm said a few days a go that the hole in the ozone layer healed itself. Lol

Absolutely fantastic video!!! Instant subscribe!

Thanks for the info now I can say I know what permaculture is

Thank you! A message Worth sharing!

This video talks a lot without providing any actual information

So basically Permaculture is self reliance. Not relying on big corporations and or govt for your food and energy, while taking care of the environment. Back to basics....

Great work, I've been making videos too so I can slowly take over the world with my robotic chicken army so I can show people there is more than one way we ought to live as well.

I'm didn't really get it, can someone explain it more simple

I don't exactly understand what the difference between this and agriculture

I desperately want to understand permaculture, but the audio on this video is monotone and not well structured. Take a breath to let people grasp what you are saying and don't use run on sentences! I'm going to have to look for a different vid to answer my question...

Thank you.

You had me until the "fair share" part. I am not big on the idea of supporting people who choose not to work. If you want to work, you eat. If you want, you can purchase my surplus so I can reinvest that money to make more or better crops.

Sieze the means of production

I want to buy a piece of land later and create a food forest

Informative!

Greatly appreciate the explanation and this is a beautiful philosophy, but where is the money in it?

ayo the soil tho. Gotta keep the soil healthy with diverse plants and crops

can fair trade be considered close to permaculture?

permaculture is awesome

Just an infomercial for a training by someone selling a product.

Can you define permaculter? in short🙂

D**n, these are good! 👊🏻

I love this

Please use a voice-over person with a personality.

You are great

Are you a vegan?

This video has made me a permaculture extremist.

All food comes from the land and all water comes from the river. Trying to be holier than thou just muddies the water. And you forgot animal care. If you think you can still have animal exploitation in a "permaculture world ", you've already lost and are just repeating the same mistakes that got us here in the first place. And to think you can just imagine some bucolic world without understanding the problems of demand and world population, shows the reason why this will always be a pipe dream. Now if everybody started going plant based tomorrow, then I would say you might actually have a chance.

Kaptain Kristian influence I see. Awesome

fantastic :)

Lower music volume and don’t be so monotonous. But good info and otherwise good editing

Pls remove irritating background music.. ......

New age drivel. Didn't even watch until the end. No practical advice whatsoever.

Actually quite dissapointed with this presentation. Permaculture, in its essence, is very very simple. But this whole video presents permaculture as some sort of highly intellectual pseudo science, which requires research and cerebral solutions to make modern sociological paradigms fit into the philosophy. Square pegs and round holes ! So lets rethink what permaculture actually is, and what it means. Permanent = everlasting. Culture = way of life. Where can we find an example of this ? Well, take humans off the planet, with all of its science, farming, civilisations, and societies, and what is left ? A self sustaining biological system which has developed and survived, not centuries, or millenia, but billions of years. Permaculture ! So, trying to develop a near perfect system, into the infancy of human ideas or society, like the mere concept of farming, or land management, is not only stupid, but profoundly arrogant. The "backward" uncontacted tribes of the Amazon, are many times closer to permaculture than you will ever be. So, how can we define permaculture ? It is simply this. To give back in equal measures, exactly the same as we have taken. Both in terms of matter and energy. A closed system, where the biodiversity and energy around you, are the building blocks of what you are, and what you are is repaid to the biodiversity and energy around you. If your whole body is composed from the biomass that you exist in, and you pee, poop, and decompose into the same system, it is closed. Isn't that what we do anyway ? you may ask. No it is not ! That is what nature does. What our species does is look to gain more than we put in. To profit from nature. To exploit natural resources to our species benefit alone. There is a name for this insanity. Usury. Capitalism. And that process is anti-nature. Anti life. And yes, in certain circles, against Gods plan !

So basically Hippie gardening.

so bad editing and music. i struggle to watch :(

What a terrible video! Did not explain anything.

Very less content

kindly improve your oration! Its nearly dead!

cant listen to you. sorry

Omg the narrator sounds soooo lifeless 😩. I'm off to another video...

Is this communism?