One way to understand permaculture is as a post-modern integration of elements from different traditions and modernity that involves continuous change and evolution. -- David Holgren

I don't intend to get into a "What Is Permaculture" story, here. For that sort of thing, take a look at our PermacultureOnlineResources, the "Permaculture Design Manual" or "Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability".

Rather, this area of the website is focused on

• explaining some of the Permaculture design aspects of Braamekraal Farm
• recording some reference information that we have found difficult to source elsewhere in a unified, accessible form, and
• maybe even waffling about some of the theory and philosophy that drives our ideas around Permaculture.

Reference Pages#

• Indicator Plants: We don't really need expensive laboratory soil analyses most of the time. If we know enough, the plants growing in any polyculture will tell us exactly what the mineral and nutritional profile of the soil looks like in any area. If we know enough! The difficulty is that this sort of information is spotty, hard to find and very fragmented. So here goes our effort to record the bits and pieces of data we do run across...
• Vegetable Varieties: Recording, as we get the urge, our findings on vegetable varieties we grow at Braamekraal, including information on the plants' nutritional needs, flavours, seed-saving, companion planting and cultural practices. Keep in mind that our findings will be quite specific to our ecoregion; YMMV.