Permaculture gardening is a sustainable approach to gardening that mimics nature and relies on natural processes to promote growth, providing abundant fruits and vegetables. It is a design that encourages the right wildlife and uses what you already have in your landscape. Permaculture gardening is all about recycling, regenerating, and reusing, and it emphasizes using food waste to create compost, minimizing waste, allowing dead plants to become a home-grown mulch, using companion planting to replace fertilizers and to deter pests, planting for and encouraging diversity, letting nature take its course, building a nutrient-rich soil over time, and preserving water and electricity.

Permaculture gardens use techniques and practices that combine the best of wildlife gardening, edible landscaping, and native-plant cultivation into one low-maintenance, self-contained, and productive ecosystem. They are self-sustaining and each plant in a permaculture garden has a specific purpose, some are used solely for food and others for medicine, while some are planted to attract beneficial insects.

To start a permaculture garden, you need to understand what it means to you and the principles of permaculture, which are caring for the earth, caring for people, and taking only your fair share. You also need to observe nature and learn from it, recreate the natural growth cycle, and look at your yard with a different mindset. Some techniques and designs to get started on your permaculture garden include no-dig gardening, sheet mulching, raised beds, and hugelkultur.