What’s the difference between Organic Gardening and Permaculture? To start, Permaculture involves closed loop systems. So everything you adjust, harvest, cut or more is used in some way. Example: you grow your own food, but also the food for your animals and/or feed them scraps, then their manure is used in the garden. In this same light, permaculture can be viewed as more than a gardening technique but a lifestyle. For every action that is not within a closed loop, comes a degree of unsustainab