Permaculture: Quick Facts

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Penny Pyett, far left, instructs permaculture students as they build a raised spiral herb garden from bricks and soil in an outdoor class in Curl Curl, Australia.

A bronze bust of an Indigenous American figure sits in a kitchen, overlaid with sacks of rice marked with a green check and milk with sugar cubes crossed out.

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sustainability Regenerative agriculture Sustainable agriculture Origins of agriculture aquaculture Intensive animal farming Aquaponics Milpa collectivization Perennial agriculture Subsistence farming enclosure Intensive agriculture equal-field system