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What are your favorite permaculture practices? (sh.itjust.works)

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Hello! Thank you for creating this community. I hope these sort of text discussion posts are okay.

I'd like to know - how do people here practice permaculture? What sort of habits have you created? What sources do you learn from?

I'm a suburb-bound person who is constantly trying to bring more permaculture practices into my life, and spaces that show me what others are doing really help.

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[–] Fried_out_Kombi 1 points 1 year ago

I'm currently living in an apartment, so I'm very limited in what I can do. Nonetheless, I have a number of potted plants on my balcony. I first tried growing food lile tomatoes, but it was too much effort for too little payoff. This summer I'm just growing low-maintenance native and naturalized plants that can thrive on neglect: purple prairie clover (for nitrogen fixation), some dandelions that have colonized my pots despite being on a 4th-floor balcony, Utah sweetvetch (also for nitrogen fixation), wild bergamot (for pollinators), and several other unidentified plants that have managed to colonize my pots.

In the near-term future I want to buy some land outside of the city to build a permaculture fish pond, chinampas, and silvopasture.