Permaculture Practices

Permaculture

In Practice

Permaculture is a practical, systems-based approach to growing food, managing land, and designing human spaces that work with natural processes rather than against them. At Live With Nature, our focus is on real-world permaculture practices that improve soil health, conserve water, increase biodiversity, and produce resilient yields across a wide range of climates and conditions.

These practices are drawn from observation, ecological design principles, and hands-on experience — from small gardens and allotments to farms, homesteads, and community spaces. Whether you’re working with poor soil, high rainfall, wind exposure, limited space, or changing weather patterns, permaculture offers adaptable methods that evolve over time instead of relying on constant external inputs.

Rather than isolated techniques, permaculture practices function as connected systems: soil feeds plants, plants support animals, water is slowed and stored, waste becomes a resource, and energy is used efficiently. The goal is long-term resilience — healthy land, productive ecosystems, and people who understand how to work within them.

Below you’ll find our core practice areas, each explored in depth through guides, examples, and learning resources. These sections can be followed individually or treated as part of a whole, depending on where you are in your journey.

Permaculture design in the landscape with mixed planting beds, mulched paths and regenerative growing systems across rolling land — A landscape-scale permaculture system designed to restore soil, increase biodiversity and produce food in harmony with nature.

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Farming Practice

Water Harvesting

Shallow water channel guiding rainwater through a mulched permaculture landscape for infiltration

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Water Harvesting

Water harvesting in permaculture is about working with natural water flows to slow, spread, and soak rainfall into the landscape.
This approach improves soil moisture, reduces erosion, supports healthy plant growth, and builds long-term resilience in both dry and high-rainfall environments.

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Soil Building

Earthworms moving through rich organic soil, showing healthy soil biology in a permaculture system

Permaculture practice for

Water Harvesting

We rotate the beef herd to fresh pasture every 1 - 3 days, moving them to a new temporary paddock using portable electic fencing from April through November.

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Companion Planting

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Companion Planting

Companion planting in permaculture is the practice of growing different plants together so they support each other’s growth and health.
This diversity-led approach mimics natural ecosystems, creating resilient, productive gardens with fewer inputs and stronger long-term yields.

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Land Management

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Land Management

We rotate the beef herd to fresh pasture every 1 - 3 days, moving them to a new temporary paddock using portable electic fencing from April through November.

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Pasture-Raised Turkeys

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Pasture Turkeys

We rotate the beef herd to fresh pasture every 1 - 3 days, moving them to a new temporary paddock using portable electic fencing from April through November.

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Organic Vegetables

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Vegetables

We rotate the beef herd to fresh pasture every 1 - 3 days, moving them to a new temporary paddock using portable electic fencing from April through November.

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Questions & Answers

How is organic farming different from conventional farming?

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Permaculture

In Practice

Hello and Welcome

Farming Practice

Water Harvesting

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Water Harvesting

Soil Building

Permaculture practice for

Water Harvesting

Companion Planting

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Companion Planting

Land Management

permaculture practice for

Land Management

Pasture-Raised Turkeys

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Pasture Turkeys

Organic Vegetables

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Vegetables

farming faq

Questions & Answers

How is organic farming different from conventional farming?

What does certified organic mean and how is certification regulated?

How does organic farming help the environment?

How does organic farming improve soil and water quality?

Where can beginning organic farmers and farmers transitioning to organic get assistance?