How to Make Your Permaculture Garden Work in Off-Seasons

"One of the challenges for the permaculturist as well as the organic market gardener, is to move smoothly through the seasonal transitions. In traditional monocropping and industrial agriculture, the fall season marks the end of the farming year, with burn backs clearing everything for the following year. Not only is this unproductive, it damages the landscape and uses up a hell of a lot of labor."