Read any manual, permaculture included, and there will be a slew of jargon through which we must sort. Subject specialists tend to speak in a language very difficult for others to understand, not necessarily because they are trying to exclude novices but perhaps because the topic and its vocabulary have become so commonplace to them. While permaculture definitely has its own terminology (swales on contour, hugelkultur, nitrogen-fixing, etc.), the idea behind the practice, what has
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