Here's a stupid joke

Permaculture is when you spend three years designing a garden so you can avoid five minutes of daily work…
and then spend the rest of your life explaining to visitors that it’s supposed to look like that. 🌱😆

Rather than spending the rest of your life explaining to visitors that it’s supposed to look like that.

Why not explain to them why it is like that?  And all the benefits of avoiding those 5 minutes of work each day?

Well said, Anne. I guess the beautiful part of the explanation is the teaching aspect. I put in a banana circle (banana/papaya/coconut circle with sweet potato ground cover) in wet/dry tropics (Casamance area of Senegal). During the making of it, many of my neighbours and visitors would ask me "You're gonna burn all of the mulch, right?" more times than I can remember. They did of course not call it 'mulch', but 'waste' rather. But sure enough, once the mound was setup, the pit full of palm fronds (the pit was dug as we cut down and uprooted a tall palm tree which left a big hole in the ground to do something with) and mango mulch (there is a huge mango tree right across from it), the ladies from the neighbourhood would come visit and admire it, saying "Your bananas sure grow fast!", and I would try to explain them in my limited local language how it works and why it looks the way it does. We had a cleaning lady to help us out one weekend who would first gather up all the detritus mango leaves and burn them along with plastic waste (that's what the locals do mostly), but after I told her about the banana circle, she was sure enough putting all those leaves into a bucket which she would empty in among the bananas! Those explanations might be the seed for more banana circles getting implemented locally, less useful mulch being burnt, and more local bananas being produced.