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What's Permaculture All About?

March 20, 2026·52 min·4 clips
You don't have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency — Bill Mollison's biological pest control rule.
A farm becomes the working example.

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A plainspoken primer on permaculture as practical land design, from berms and fish ponds to backyard zones.

Stuff You Should Know approaches permaculture less as a gardening trend than as a design problem: how to arrange land around attention, labor, and degrees of human disturbance. The episode is clearest when it turns abstract principles into spatial logic.

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If "permaculture" has always sounded like a word for other people, this episode brings it down to the yard.

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