Mollison has said: Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labour; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system..
The juice of jewelweed is a traditional remedy for all sorts of skin ailments including poison ivy. An oft-repeated folk saying, Wherever poison ivy is found, jewelweed grows close by. To use it, you can simply crush the leaves and rub it on the itchy places.
Poison ivy can grow as a vine or low shrub. It will climb trees, power line. poles, fences or just about anything available to climb. Poison oak is a shrub. with hairy leaves that have an oak-leaf appearance, hence the name. Both. plants produce greenish-white berries which birds eat, spreading the seed.