Grow Potatoes

The Potato Harvest by Fritz Boehle

Bill Mollison, a pioneer of the permaculture movement in the 1970s, offered simple yet profound advice:

"Grow potatoes."

Permaculture is a design system and philosophy that aims to create sustainable and regenerative living systems by mimicking nature. Developed by Mollison and David Holmgren, it's based on the following principles:

Permaculture Principles

1. Observe and interact with nature
2. Catch and store energy
3. Obtain a yield
4. Apply self-regulation and accept feedback
5. Use and value renewable resources and services
6. Produce no waste
7. Design from patterns to details
8. Integrate rather than segregate
9. Use small and slow solutions
10. Celebrate diversity
11. Use edges and value the marginal
12. Creatively use and respond to change
    
    

Applications of Permaculture

• Ecological design
• Sustainable agriculture
• Regenerative agriculture
• Agroforestry
• Eco-friendly architecture
• Community building
  
  

Mollison emphasized the importance of growing potatoes as a staple crop in permaculture systems due to their high yield and nutritional value. He often referred to potatoes as a "superfood" and encouraged their cultivation in permaculture designs.

I used to be a couch potato. 

Now I grow potatoes!

Sometimes the answers are as simple and doable as that.