There's a moment early in the permaculture design course where something shifts. It usually happens quietly, not during a lecture, but in a conversation, or while handling soil, or watching how water moves across a slope. Students stop looking for the answer and start looking at the relationships.

That shift is, I'd argue, the whole point.

“Permaculture is thinking like an ecosystem”

On the second day of the 2016 Permaculture Design Course the concept above was mentioned, from that moment on Andrea, also known as Dre, began to question the impact of why and how we approach things. Ecosystems rely on dependency, much like the human ecosystem we all live in.