A strong theme in Gaia's Garden (Gaia’s Garden) is that the default progression of plants, when given enough water and sunlight, is to grow into a forest. This happens by itself without any external direction.
In contrast, gardeners often struggle with keeping some flowers alive.
How is it, then, that nature is so proficient at growing forests that are thick, productive, and full of life without any external help? The simple answer is this: God's systems (Aligning with Gods Systems) are built to thrive.
When given enough water and sunlight, bare land across all kinds of landscapes and environments have the built in tools to walk through the stages of ecological succession (Ecological Succession).
As a permaculture designer, it is your job to understand those systems (5 zones in permaculture), and then piggy back off of them. If your goal is to grow a thriving garden, it's not your job to ignore the systems God created and try to over-regulate (Plants Need Sunlight to Grow Well). Your results will not be what you'd hoped. And if your results are what you'd hoped, then you have no idea what God's systems are capable of producing.
Your job as a gardener is to design with God's systems in mind, and let it do it's job (Play is serious business).
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