This document provides an overview of a permaculture course, which includes defining permaculture, its ethics and 12 design principles. Permaculture was coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren to describe a system for observing and designing sustainable human settlements based on natural ecosystems. It aims to create permanent food systems and communities in harmony with nature. At its core, permaculture revolves around a set of ethics and principles that can be applied to design all aspects of life, from food growing and land management to social relations and business.

2. Course Overview
1.What is Permaculture?
2.The Ethics of Permaculture
3.The 12 Principles of Permaculture
4.Permaculture Zones
5.Soil and Land Preparation
6.Making Compost: 18 Day Hot Method
7.Mulch
8.Companion Planting

3. What is Permaculture?
Perma-culture is a term coined by university
Professor Bill Mollison and his student, David
Holmgren, to describe a system of design that they
put together from observing the ways of nature, as
well as the intelligent community-centred, subsistence
and food growing ways of indigenous people around
the world.
The term was taken from the words ‘Permanens’ and
‘Agriculture’ and/or ‘culture’ – meaning: a
persistent design system that creates permanent
food systems, and therefore permanent society
and community structures for the existence of
humans in harmony with nature.

4. Permaculture is extremely vast and can be used in all
aspects of an individual and a community’s life, from
food growing to social relations, land management,
business management, and emotions.
Regenerative agriculture, sustainability, community
living, biomimicry and many other disciplines may be
nestled under the Permaculture blanket.

5. At its core, Permaculture revolves
around a set of ethics and principles
that can be used to look at and design
all aspects of one’s life. Many versions
of these ethics and principles are
available – some from Bill Mollison,
David Holmgren, Heather Jo Flores,
Starhawk and many others.
In this course, we’ll be using David
Holmgren’s Ethics and Principles.
Permaculture Ethics and Principles Poster downloaded from:
https://permacultureprinciples.com/resources/free-downloads/#principles-
poster