Zone 3 (5 zones in permaculture) is where things start to feel less like a yard and more functional. Your attention here is fairly minimal - only needing a visit every week or so. This goes both ways: the plants only need you to visit periodically, and you only need to visit them periodically.
Rather than mulching, you would plant ground cover and long term soil builders out here. Perrenial fruit and nut tree guilds, blueberries, and farm animals rather than your typical Zone 2 (Permaculture Zone 2) annuals or Zone 1 (Permaculture Zone 1) comfort spaces. Swales/berms, orchards, greenhouses, pigs, ponds. These are all great examples of things to place in this zone.
Relating Zone 3 to personal spaces again, this would be like your garage or attic spaces. They are visited when you need to visit them, and they don't really ask much of you. You visit to pull out seasonal decorations or dig through some old photos. Maybe you grab something from the deep freezer. Either way, this isn't an area you forget about entirely - it's not supposed to be a storage unit, afterall - you just don't need to give it much design or attention.
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