The Athenian Permaculture Project reflects the school's philosophy in a garden that will provide the community with a diversity of food crops, "farm"aceuticals, home made fertilizers from plants, fodder, and a whole lot of fun. Athenian is already beginning to move forward toward sustainability, but this project goes way beyond sustainability. The permaculture garden actively regenerates energy in many forms, maintains itself, and provides the community a source of inspiration and education. This land care project is consciously designed to have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. Unlike a typical energy intensive garden, a landscape that makes use of permaculture principles and techniques creates a whole system of symbiotic relationships where each element of the landscape is in a harmonious relation with the other elements.

To get an idea, there are not only fruit trees, but fruiting vines growing up the tree, understory useful shrubs, perennial flowering herbs and vegetables that surround the tree, ground covers that act as a living mulch, trellis systems with berries and grapes, an herb spiral, and more.  To top it off, the project was conceived, designed and built by a group of Athenian students.