{"id":6566,"date":"2011-02-15T08:14:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T08:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2011-02-15T08:14:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T08:14:42","slug":"permaculture-as-an-approach-to-planting-design-for-landscape-architects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/permaculture-as-an-approach-to-planting-design-for-landscape-architects\/","title":{"rendered":"Permaculture as an approach to planting design for landscape architects"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Permaculture<\/a>

Permaculture at Glovers Street Organic Community Garden in Sydney<\/p><\/div>\n

Permaculture is an attractive idea and may become an economic necessity (as argued in the video below) when the oil supply begins to run out. Permaculture relates to the ancient agriculture of West Asia<\/a> but, in its modern form, originated in Australia and was popularised by Bill Mollison<\/a>. My worry is that too often it looks cheap and nasty, with coloured plastic, rusty iron, wire and junk. My hope is that landscape architects will make it more beautiful and more efficient – so that food forest gardening<\/em> can become one of the standard approaches to managing vegetation in urban and rural areas. I can add to my concerns about London’s 2012 Olympic Park<\/a> the fact that it is being designed for recreation, aesthetics and biodiversity only <\/em>– not for urban food production.
\n The above image, of Permaculture at Glovers Street Organic Community Garden in Sydney<\/a>, illustrates the point that if Permaculture is to win the success it deserves then it must look <\/em>good as well as being <\/em>good. See the video, below of a beautiful Devon farm and also these links http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-6370279933612522952#docid=-918331001764551597<\/a> http:\/\/urbanhomestead.org\/<\/a>
\n<\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n

A 2008 paper from DEFRA<\/a> examined the UK’s food supply and supplied these figures<\/p>\n