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Major edit 1/28/2025

My edit focused on the Header and the Issues sections, which have been rehauled.

Previously the header was two paragraphs, with one paragraph summarizing seemingly the entire article, while the other paragraph closely matching the methodology subsection of Issues. I have tried to make the header match up more closely with the article itself. The Issues Methodology subsection was also heavily reliant on one blog post from Peter Harper in 2003, and in my opinion didn't even match the conclusions of that source. I have added his revised and published version of the same piece, updated in 2013, and have added some information and perspective from "A Critical Review of Permaculture in the United States" by Robert Scott and "Permaculture for Agroecology" by Ferguson and Lovell. I have also tried to compress some of the defense of Permaculture which was a bit long winded.

Please let me know if you see any issues with the edit, I'd be happy to discuss improvements to the page!

Underswamp (talk) 20:26, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]