They have often not heard the word, yet they understand nature’s patterns and use them to create polycultural, perennially based, energy efficient homes, gardens, farms, communities… These are found all over the world where remnants of those cultures have been allowed to survive. “ These ways of observing and working with nature are the legacy and heritage of indigenous peoples all over the globe.
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In many ways we can say that permaculture is largely “indigenous peoples’ understanding of how to live in place. What also must be confronted is that a great many of these practices and systems were not in fact “given,” but were taken by colonial forces that too often throughout history have taken not only the cultural traditions and practices of indigenous people, but often their land, their languages, and often their lives. It is important to recognize the root of permaculture in indigenous land-use practices, foodways, and lifeways.įrom the Mayan Milpa systems as a model of permaculture’s food forests, to South China, Thailand, and Indonesia’s cultivation of rice in paddy fields in combination with fish as a model of aquaponics and aquaculture systems, indigenous cultures have given innumerous practices to the design system we think of as permaculture. The term “permaculture” is fairly new, but the essence of the design science and practice itself is the amalgamation of indigenous wisdom specific to place and culture from all around the planet.
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