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    ZONE 00 LOOKING AFTER THE SELF

    Feb 04, 2020 5 minutes
    Words by Robyn Rosenfeldt

    Many of us spend a lot of time and energy caring for the environment and caring for others in our families and our communities. Sometimes we find that, while spending all this time and energy caring for everyone else, we forget to care for ourselves.

    Inevitably we get tired and struggle with our own health, happiness and sense of wellbeing, and we stop working effectively.

    In permaculture, we talk about zones, with zone 0 being the home and inside the home, zone one the area directly around the home and it goes out from there until we reach zone five, which is the wilderness and wild areas.

    Through these zones we look at how we design, build and maintain our homes, gardens and properties. How we look after our inner self is known as zone 00. Just as we apply permaculture design principles to these other

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