Benefits of Urban Permaculture

Environment

• Supports ecological sustainability of the land

• Builds healthy topsoil for an abundant future

• Utilizes passive solar energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels

• Saves water by harvesting the rain, reusing household Greywater, and converting lawns to gardens

• Reduces greenhouse gas emissions by producing food closer to the consumer

• Gives habitat for bees, birds, butterflies, and many other wildlife

• Increases biodiversity resulting in resistance to disease, droughts, and floods

Health

• Provides healthy, affordable food to help with hunger and obesity

• Protects workers from harmful chemicals and pesticides

• Builds connections between humans and the sacredness of the land

Economy

• Creates local jobs in landscaping, production, value added processing, and retail

• Makes healthy food more affordable than grocery and corner stores

• Provides jobs for youth, unemployed, elderly and disadvantaged

Social Justice

• Lowers cost of food resulting in greater equity for low-income and people of color

• Reduces need for oil exploitation and war

• Produces community food sovereignty by owning our own means of food production

• Intervenes on corporate power by decentralizing food systems

• Builds community alliances and empowerment through planting, harvesting, and sharing of food

• Passes on traditional knowledge of agricultural techniques

• Draws connections between seemingly disparate social movements such as labor, anti-war, anti-racism, environmental, Indigenous rights, health care, pro-democracy, social justice