Post 4 : Permaculture

 

Before I watched the video, I didn´t know much about Permaculture, I saw some posts about it, comparations explaining the difference between permaculture´s and agriculture´s practices. I understood agriculture as a system that affects the environment, soil, communities, and the biodiversity around, since it uses pesticides and fertilizers. Instead, permaculture is a type of cultivation that respects the nature where it is being applied, seeing that it does not provide toxics to help the development of the crop.

The food forest could be a great cropping system for people who lives in the woods or has the enough space to do it, I don’t think this can be used properly in Santiago, for example. There are not so many places to implement it here.

This would be a better option than planting trees and plants that don’t provide food, if that’s the purpose of the person who is working on it. Also, it seems more productive, as it uses completely the area. I don’t know if this is a great option for a farming use, where you have to provide some specific food in big amounts, this looks like an option for people who wants to grow it owns vegetables