perma helps you plan your garden so the plants look after each other. You spend less time tending it, and more time enjoying it.
Permaculture means designing after nature's own systems, and creating an ecosystem that fills the garden's different jobs.
In a plant guild, every plant has a job.
The plants help each other instead of competing.
Some plants pull nitrogen from the air, others bring nutrients up from deep down. Cut their leaves and leave them where they fall, and they feed the soil and cover it so it holds water. The soil gets better every year, without bought fertilizer.
When the garden is designed as an ecosystem, it can look after itself. Native flowers attract pollinators and beneficial insects, which pollinate the fruit and keep pests down, without sprays or extra fertilizer. It asks less of you and leads to a more productive garden.
Build the garden in layers, like a food forest, from trees and shrubs down to herbs and ground cover, and the same space gives more food. With perennial plants you get a garden that looks after itself and gives more every year, because the soil is left undisturbed and stays in balance.
Permaculture draws on a huge amount of knowledge. Which plants will thrive in your soil and in your climate? Which ones help each other, and which compete? It can quickly become confusing
All of that knowledge, applied to your garden, in one place. Only the parts that matter to you.
Open appperma uses your address to map your plot and buildings, and lets you design your beds. From there, perma works out how well each plant will do, based on your garden's microclimates.
perma checks the conditions in your garden against what each plant needs. You see what will thrive where, which plants help each other, and why.
Keep track of what you planted, what needs doing and when. Write in the journal, and learn how the garden evolves
Permaculture know-how is scattered across books, courses and forums. That makes it hard to get started.
The wiki gathers it in one place, from sources you can trust.
perma wiki304 species in one placeFree to read. No account.
Type the name of a missing plant and the wiki finds the rest. Add a plant ↗
What one person adds, the next can use.
Permaculture is a way of thinking, not just a way of growing. The same thinking shapes farms, houses, water and whole communities.
perma starts in the garden, because that’s where most people can begin. Everything in the app rests on permaculture’s three ethics.
Leave the soil richer than you found it. A garden that feeds itself needs no bags of fertiliser and no sprays.
Grow food that feeds your household. The more of it comes from your own garden, the less you depend on long supply chains and full shelves.
Take what you need and pass the rest on: fruit, seeds and know-how. A street full of gardens is a real food system.
No. perma is made for starting from scratch. You draw your garden, and perma explains as you go why a plant fits, or why it doesn't.
perma is free while the app is in open beta.
No, and it isn't meant to. perma is a first step that makes it easier to get going, and a good tool to bring along if you take a course or work with a garden designer.
From verified databases and botanical sources. AI helps gather and organise the knowledge, but the app's recommendations follow fixed rules, and every fact can be traced back to its source.
Yes. perma runs in the browser on both computer and phone. Apps for iOS and Android are on the way.
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Draw it the way it looks today, and see what it could become.
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