Permaculture

Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies. Most native populations practiced some form of permaculture prior to European invasion. The intent is that, by rapidly training individuals in a core set of design principles, those individuals can design their own environments and build increasingly self-sufficient human settlements — ones that reduce society's reliance on industrial systems of production and distribution that are fundamentally and systematically destroying Earth's ecosystems. We at White Cap Village are in the process of building our own sustainable permaculture system utilitizing a combination of our own ideas and technologies and the method created by David Blume and the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA). This system incorporates biofuel production, solar energy and organic farming. Our goal is to expand this system to initially make the Farm off the corporate grid, power our vehicles, and greatly reduce our electrical, fuel and grocery bills. Then the second phase will be teach others to do the same and in the process make our products available for sell to local residents and businesses. To learn more and/or become involved in any aspect of the Village please contact us.