Land and nature stewardship is the area of work that permaculture has most experience with. Permaculture started as a design system primarily focussed on creating agriculturally productive settlements.

Horticulture and orchards

• Forest gardens
• Organic gardening
• Raised beds
• Hugel mounds
• Polyveg systems
• Seed saving

Broadscale agriculture systems

• Organic agriculture
• Biodynamics

Managing animals

• Holistic management grazing
• Small livestock
• Sheep and cattle
• Bees

Forest / woodlands

• Analogue forestry
• Agroforestry
• Continuous cover forestry

Aquaculture

• Ecological aquaculture
• Integrated aquaculture

Wildlands and biodiversity

• Wildlife strategies
• Zone 5 systems rules and approaches

Foraging

• Wild food, 'bush tucker'.