The word permaculture comes from permanent + culture. It is a holistic approach to
design that seeks to harmoniously integrate the landscape with people and their
food, energy and other needs. We hired a permaculture designer to incorporate these
principles into our farm design, with large flowering hedgerows which provide shelter
and food for our pollinating friends, and biodiversity to enrich our soil. Our design
also includes swales, which our designer called the lungs of the garden, capturing
rainfall and feeding it into our soil and holding it for insects and animals.
