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Nutureculture:

A method of ecologically enhancing and manipulating nature through a careful understanding, planning, design, and engineering of preexisting natural systems. Nurtureculture was developed by using principals of permaculture, applied into the Caretakers Philosophy of the native peoples. While Nurtureculture is an agricultural system, it has been applied into nature for the benefit of all life, rather then for the nearly exclusive use by humans. In doing so, it fundamentally alters the relationship of peoples to the Earth. By practicing Nurtureculture a symbiosis with the landscape, plants, creatures, and humans is developed. This not only accelerates the healthy development of the natural environment, but provides for a large diversity of plant and animal harvests for human consumption and use. Nurtureculture is based on a 4 step circle process, which can be applied to any environment or situation.

The Caretakers Philosophy: The Caretakers Philosophy is a spiritual, moral, and philosophical perspective still shared by many native peoples. It is the understanding that the humans role on the earth is to support, enhance, and protect her. This is practiced and achieved through a certain lifestyle and relationship to the land. One perspective of the caretakers philosophy is explained in the writings and teachings of Tom Brown Jr.