About Urban Seed Permaculture
Our History
Based in the western suburbs of Melbourne, we utilise the principals of permaculture to observe and analyse the garden and design creative solutions for any size and shape of garden. We work closely with the client to understand your desires for the garden, any potential limitations to create productive gardens equipped for a changing 21st climate and economy. As the price of petrol, food and living increases, it is becoming increasingly important to reinvigorate the suburban garden to the food producing areas they once were in the early days of urban sprawl. Urban Seed Permaculture aim to create efficient and economical garden designs that require minimal time and energy to maintain, at the same time ensuring fresh quality food comes to the table.
Urban Seed Permaculture founder David Pond, originally from Perth, Western Australia has a solid base of environmental and scientific knowledge gained from seven years in environmental consulting. David has a degree in Environmental Science and currently completing a Masters of Environment, specialising in development issues. He has qualifications in Permaculture Design and project management and has experienced traditional forms of agriculture during travelling through 50 countries across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Pacific Islands and Central America.
What is Permaculture
Permaculture is practiced around the world in traditional societies. Integrating traditional knowledge and practices into our current technologically driven world is key to maintaining our connection with our food, community and the earth. As energy prices rise with the decline of fossil fuels, becoming self-sufficient in our homes will be as common as taking the kids to school.
Permaculture aims to develop sustainable architecture and agricultural systems modelled from natural ecosystems. As an integrative practice incorporating ecological, social and cultural aspects of humans and their place in the environment, permaculture essentially works with nature, rather than against it.
Permaculture design emphasizes patterns of landscape, function, and species assemblies and the positioning of various elements to provide maximum benefit to the local environment. Holistically, the focus of permaculture, is not on each separate element, but on the relationships between the elements, therefore the whole becoming greater than the sum of its parts.
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