This month we are up to the tenth principle from David Holmgren's Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability , Use and Value Diversity. The other principles that I've reviewed have been: Observe and Interact Catch and Store Energy Obtain a Yield Apply Self-Regulation and Accept Feedback Use and Value Renewable Resources Produce no Waste Design from Patterns to Details Integrate, Rather than Segregate Use Small and Slow Solutions I was also very excited this month to find another blogger who is currently reviewing the permaculture principles from their own perspective, see more here . If you know of any other good permaculture blogs, please do let me know :) Diversity is a really important principle to consider from a farming perspective because so much of agriculture is anti-diversity. The ideal conventional agriculture concept is to use herbicide to kill everything in a paddock and then plant one crop, the plants will all grow to...