Antoxana
Soil, Community, Resilience
First Published: 2025-02-05| Last Updated: 2024-06-21
Status: stub| Audience: post-industrial farmers| Confidence: aficionado
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system
Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.
The antoxana is the heart of the Asturian farmstead beginning at the front door and extending out from there. Derived from the Latin Ante and Ostium, it literally means the area outside the door. Since the middle ages it has, in Asturias, taken a pretty definitive shape and size, one that continues to exist in law to this day.