Permaculture is a design system to create a sustainable living system that was systematized in 1974 by Bill Morrison, a professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and David Holmgren, who was a seminar student.

The name permaculture is a coined word that is a cross between the words permanent and agriculture, and at the same time it also means "permanent culture". Specifically, it is to design a sustainable system by creating relationships between plants, animals, buildings, and elements related to daily life such as plants, animals, buildings, and production bases (farmland, forests, human relations, etc.) in order to sustainably use the resources (water, energy, land nutrition, space, human resources, etc.) in the land by observing and applying natural mechanisms.