ORGANIC PATTERNS OF PERMACULTURE

PIONEER SPECIES = the first ones to grow in new cleared/barren land
beginning the natural succession of species depending soil & water.
common pioneers: grasses, fungus, ferns, ivy-vines, insects, many more

VOLUNTEER SPECIES - any plant that just grows surprizing there, with-
out any plan, planting or awareness of seeds spreading to sprout up

CLIMAX SPECIES - the plants that grow at end of natural succession of
plants, usually trees, grass, bushes &or cacti: ironwood, cedar, fir,
redwood, eucalyptus, pine, Christmas berry, trees are common. These usually prevent the lower undergrowth by shade, roots & acidic tree-litter droppings, which make soil?! The soil fertility & weather cycles determine what plants will grow where.

PC is sustainable homestead loving & living on land, growing food in harmony with local bioregion: animals, watershed, neighbors & fertility.

PATTERNS: webs, nets, connecting together, flowing & branching, sexing clusters, circles, spirals, eggs, humps, peaks, vallies, ravines, organs, ridge, cascade=falls, streams, creeks, rivers, rivulets; centers & cores, growing
lobes, edges, bulges, triangles, cones, tipis, stars, axis, posts, fractals, seeds
flowers, squares, hexagons, pentagons, pyramids, spheres, squares, ovals, domes, rotation, recycling, washing, cleaning, healing, erroding soil/sand, composting, grow points, rooting, towering, blowing, bending, layering, crystalizing, melting, evaporating, clouds/dust/ash floating, snow, whirlpools, vortexes, walls/cliffs, hollows, flat, wet & dry lands, lava & gas erupting/venting, fruiting, rotting, eating, pooping, peeing, sweating