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the plant industry, according to Dale Hendricks, founder of North Creek Nurseries in Pennsylvania.</p> <p>He compared the status of permaculture today to an eccentric-seeming gardening push in the 1980s that touted the cultivation of more native plants. At the time, many gardeners summed up that movement as the ideas of â€œa few crazies,â€ Hendricks recalled in a February lecture in Boston for New England Grows. â€œBut now that fringe group has become almost mainstream.â€</p> <p>Similarly, â€œPermaculture…may be on the fringe now, but it is coming into its own.â€</p> <p>In Maine, the permaculture boom is already here.</p> <p>The Resilience Hub, a nonprofit group in Portland promoting permaculture design, has 1,700 members, holds 50 to 60 events a year and helps people translate the principles of permaculture design to their homes, said Lisa Fernandes, the director who helped found the group in 2005. For one annual event, the â€œpermablitz,â€ Hub members and others spend a day transforming someoneâ€™s property into a permaculture site.</p> <p>Fernandes defined permaculture as â€œa design method based on ecological patterns. It is something you use rather than something you do.â€</p> <p>Ethan C. Roland of AppleSeed Permaculture in Stone Ridge, N.Y., who also lectured at New England Grows, defined it a little differently. â€œPermaculture design mimics the diversity, stability and permanence of natural systems,â€ he said.</p> <p>What do these definitions mean in practise?</p> <p>Permaculture, which is a contraction for â€œpermanent agriculture,â€ attempts to minimize the outside elements brought onto a property, such as energy, water and raw materials from distant places. It also works to minimize the waste that leaves the property. It encompasses composting, rooftop solar panels, rainwater collection and vegetable gardens. A favorite vegetable garden mix among permaculture practioners is the so-called â€œthree sisters,â€ the combination of crops that native tribes taught the Pilgrims to plant â€“ corn, pole beans, and squash. The plants work together, and they make efficient use of space; the beans climb the corn, and the squash keeps the weeds down and the roots cool. These three happen to be native plants, but users of permaculture are more interested in how useful plants are than where they come from. They will grow native fruits, such as blueberries, elderberries and the paw paw tree, and non-natives, such Chinese chestnuts, which are resistant to chestnut blight; apple and peach trees, which have been grown in America for generations but are not native, and the Siberian pea shrub, which produces in a small space and improves the soil. Animals have a role to play in permaculture, too. Chickens, for example, provide eggs (and perhaps meat) for eating, as well as manure to fertilize the soil. They eat ticks that can spread disease and help mix up ingredients in the compost pile.</p> <p>â€œWhen you walk into a well-designed permaculture garden, all the elements clearly work together,â€ â€ Fernandes said. â€œThere is biological diversity and a really heavy yield, whether that yield is food, flowers or herbs. There is a palpably different level of energy.â€</p> <p>Roland believes the Earth is sick, with climate change causing ever more storms, and many species going extinct or disappearing from their traditional ranges.</p> <p>â€œSustainable is not enough,â€ he said. â€œWe have to go beyond sustaining to increasing the health of ecological systems. We need to heal the damage that has been done.â€</p> <p>You can start on that important work yourself by employing the practices of permaculture at your home. 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