Permaculture

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Permaculture is ‘creating sustainable human habits by following nature’s patterns.’ Originally derived from the words ‘PERMAnent agriCULTURE’, permaculture has gone beyond its roots in looking at strategies to create sustainable food growing methods to become a world wide movement encompassing all aspects of how we, as human beings, can live harmoniously in relation to our earth and its finite resources – A PERManent CULTURE.

Permaculture is about recognizing universal patterned principles. There are 12 permaculture design principles, that when used together, allow us to creatively re-design our environment and our behavior. They are applicable to our personal, economic and social reorganization as illustrated in the permaculture flower.

KORAKOR uses permaculture as a broad-based and holistic approach in all aspects of life. At the heart of our permacultural approach lies a fundamental set of core values: care for the earth, care for people and fair share. You might be interested in becoming an intern and learning a lot more about permaculture. Join us HERE.

CARE FOR THE EARTH:

Respecting the Earth as the source of all life and thriving to rebuild and heal natural biodiversity.

AGRICULTURE / HORTICULTURE

- All organic farming

- Biointensive and biodynamic gardening

- Organize seed bank and redistribute wealth

- Establish a food forest

- Reforestation and land conservation

- Integrated aquaculture and animal husbandry

ENERGY

- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to produce no waste

- Water harvest and recycle

- Energy storage and distribution

- Use renewable, non-depletable, recyclable and durable resources

- Bio-digestive and composting toilets

- Energy efficient natural construction

CARE FOR THE PEOPLE:

Helping each other and ourselves to live sustainably. Look after self, kin and community.

COMMUNITY

- Ecovillage

- Community of practice

- Foster a place for collaborative efforts

- Outreach activities

- Workshops and seminars

EDUCATION

- Providing free supplementary education

HEALTH

- Distribute vitamins to our local community

- Provide all natural preventive medicine

FAIR SHARE:

Using the Earth’s limited resources in ways that are equitable and wise. Set limits to consumption and reproduction, and redistribute surplus.

- Free seed bank

- Collective harvest and share goods

- Develop trade with local farmers

- Allocate students’ plots for personal growing and consumption

- Preserve wildlife by planting specifically to their needs

To ease your understanding of permaculture and in hopes that you will incorporate this sustainable approach to your everyday life, we would like to share a few resources that have greatly influenced our philosophy.

Read our blogs about Permaculture.

WATCH THIS VIDEO INTRODUCTION ON PERMACULTURE