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Permaculture™ isn't gardening. Gardening is a slight aspect of it, or benefit you could say. Permaculture™ is kind of like an ideology.

The soil on abandoned lots are typically depleted of nutrients, microorganism, microbials...etc, probably pretty compacted, and have god knows what kind of chemical residue in it. The soil would need to be rehabilitated to bring life back to it after testing it. This obviously takes a few years to do depending on how fucked the soil is. Doing permaculture™ doesn't make on a more consistent anarchist. Permaculture™ has been co-opted by capitalism too. I think the people point was to limit their relationship with capitalism & the state as much as they can. Moving to nowhereville would help them recover slightly than staying in an urban area trying to rehabilitate some abandoned lot that'll inevitable be redeveloped.