Land & Nature Stewardship

The permaculture flower illustrates the core domains of permaculture.

Land & Nature Stewardship is the primary domain of permaculture and the source where permaculture principles originate through observation of nature. These principles are then applied to the built environment and tools and technology. This domain covers topics such as:

• Agriculture
• Farm
• Garden
• Forestry

• Biointensive gardening
• Forest garden
• Seed saving
• Organic agriculture
• Biodynamics
• Natural farming
• Keyline water harvesting
• Holistic rangeland management
• Natural Sequence Farming
• Agroforestry
• Nature-based forestry
• Integrated aquaculture
• Wild harvesting and hunting
• Gleaning