Permaculture means permanent culture - a culture wich grows permanently without humans labour. It is the very extreem sence of permaculture. But I like it most, because my goal is to be free (in this case from working in the garden).

I just got my piece of land, so I don't grow vegetables yet. But will. Now I want to tell about the first step of permaculture which I took.

When I came to my land it was empty. Only grass and few trees and bushes was there. But I saw that between those grasses there are a lot of eatable things. They do grow in permaculture already, so my goal is only to keep it. I don't need to create a new permaculture fields. I can use the fields that nature has created here already - the permanent fields of nature.

Between grasses I have found:

• aegopodium podagraria (ground-elder)
• anthriscus sylvestris (cow parsley)
• taraxacum officinale (dandelion)
• tilia cordata or other (US - linden, UK - lime)
  
• urtica dioica L. (stinging nettle)
• pulmonaria obscura (lungworts)
• alchemilla, (lady's mantle)
• acer platanoides (Norway maple)
• picea (spruce)
• oxalis tetraphylla
• chenopodium (goosefoots)
• alliaria (garlic mustard or hedge garlic)
• berberis vulgaris (pepperidge bush)
• tragopogon (goatsbeard)
• heracleum sibiricum (hogweeds)
• stellaria (stitchwort, chickweed)
• thlaspi arvense L.
• and other plants
  

And these are only eatable leaves (you can use it like vegetables - fresh or cooked, boiled). But there are more. There are a lot of mushrooms, seeds and nuts, berries which you can eat too. And there are a lot of herbal plants from which you can make tea and drink it to get vitamins and micro/macro elements.

So, I eat these things. Of course it's not enought, so this year I have made a garden and will try to take second step to permaculture and grow vegetables in sustainable way.

Here I wanted to say, that permaculture means not only growing vegetables in sustainable way, but to keep wild nature in your land too. Nature has already made a permaculture garden, we must just keep it and learn how to use it.