Permaculture is a holistic approach to agriculture that provides for human needs—high-quality food, fiber, fuel, medicine and building materials—while enhancing the ecosystems and communities from which these derive; it offers a set of ethics and principles and a means of integrating social and ecological processes in a way that is grounded in the local context. The chief tenets are: Care of the Earth; Care of People; and Fair Share of the Surplus. This ethos guides the Laboratorio di Permacultura Urbana as it strives to to be a leading facility in the south of Italy that catalyzes change through leading by example.