Just about every single permaculture principle is incorporated into the BioWicked system. I use the original 18 permaculture principles from Mollison . Just one example is how I use multi-level wicking beds so I can plant polycultures of fruit trees, veggies, herbs and vine crops. Most wicking beds are just one level and not suitable for proper permaculture planting styles. The beds recycle food waste in a carbon-negative system that locks up atmospheric carbon into the soil, using what is a ‘pollution’ as a resource (pollution is just unused resources). Even the design of thow he BioWicked beds function is totally permaculture based. Most wicking systems see organic matter in the saturated anaerobic zone as a problem as it creates methane, and so avoid this by having a lower layer of sand or gravel. The BioWicked beds are soil-only and use probiotic bacteria to stop the methane. This bacteria also pulls nitrogen and carbon from the air into the soil, turning a problem into a high nutrient solution (scuse the pun). The beds are square and rectangular ‘boxes’ and BioWicked gardens may look beautifully manicured but they are actually one of the lowest maintenance ways of growing organic food. I realise many people are used to ‘messy’ looking permaculture gardens, many of which incorporate less permaculture principles than the ones I design. Bill pushed low maintenance gardening (the lazy person’s gardening) and this leads some people to think such low maintenance gardens based on natural patterns and cycles will always look ‘untidy’. Rambling in-ground permaculture system that work well in the wet tropics just take too much water and maintenance to maintain in the dry tropics, and so I designed these beds through combining wet tropical techniques with desert techniques. The irrigation system is an evolution of the natural soak system for deserts described in the Designer’s Manual where a pipe goes into the ground to water the roots, while the top is thickly mulched and mimics a wet rainforest floor. I inoculate the mulch and topsoil with mycorrhiza and pour some diluted fermented food waste over it and it is saturated weekly so it breaks down and turns over fast, feeding the soil and the feeder roots. I will be adding a page to this site shortly that details the 18 Mollison permaculture principles and how the beds fit in with each one.