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A mini-digger picking up piles of dead trees, brash and leaves and dumping them in a huge hole in the ground is hardly most people's idea of permaculture - a practice more commonly associated with low tech solutions like chicken tractors, chicken greenhouses and Read the full story on TreeHuggerOne Response to “Is This Permaculture? Building Hugelkultur Raised Beds”
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August 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 am
I would have to say no, that is not permaculture. That is a technique. Permaculture is about design. Hugelkultur is a tool to provide a solution to a set of problems, but permaculture is the practice of designing toolboxes that contain tools like hugelkultur.
Also, hugelkultur is great for nutrient cycling and resource building. But I question its sustainability when petrol-powered machinery is used to carry it out. Still, there are more harmful ways to use an excavator.