Pikes Peak Permaculture, a 501c3 non-profit founded in 2002, serves the Pikes Peak region in Southern Colorado. Our focus is permaculture education through courses, classes, workshops and trainings. We work with people of all ages, from small children to adults, permaculture is for everyone!
We are active in the community and you can frequently find us at events related to climate, gardening, sustainability, and community.
Vision: To build a community that is diverse, equitable, and regenerative by living and teaching the permaculture ethics and principles.
Mission: To help people to learn that the embodiment of the permaculture ethics and principles is a way forward for humanity.
By practicing permaculture design we can rebuild society to be more just, equitable and regenerative. Using the permaculture design framework we can sustain human habitat in ways that are less harmful to the environment and restore local systems.
Permaculture is a design process. It is based on clear universal ethics and ecological pattern principles, and is grounded in the importance of individual responsibility and action. These ethics and principles are utilized in the process of permaculture design, and implementation, bringing systems together to meet our needs and the needs of the world around us.
Permaculture is universally applicable with the understanding that every context is different, for example the difference between the tropics of Australia and the high prairie desert of Colorado, USA is vast and the two have very different contexts. Permaculture can be applied to both, and all, contexts.
Permaculture is used not only to design productive gardens, it is utilized to design everything! There is a strong focus in permaculture on growing food, whether it is plant based or animal based, but it is so much bigger than just gardens and farming.
Permaculture is a verb, a process. Not a noun, a thing you have. It is impossible to have a permaculture garden, a permaculture greenhouse, a permaculture orchard, though many permaculturists will reference their garden, greenhouse, or orchard as such. With permaculture you have implemented a garden, greenhouse, or orchard using permaculture design as the guide and if you have designed well those elements are in cooperation with each other and not separate input consuming entities.