Zones

Zones in permaculture is a concept for roughly categorizing areas according to ease and/or frequency of access.

00:	Your own body.
0:	The base of operations under consideration.
1:	Offers easy, quick access but not as immediate as zone 0.
2:	Somewhat more involved access. Still regularly visited.
3:	Even further away. Regular visits become scarcer.
4:	Visited only a few times a year.
5:	Wild, untamed wilderness - rarely, if ever visited.

A typical example is a design for a house and surrounding areas. In this case, the zones would roughly map to the following areas:

00:	Your own body (in the house).
0:	The house.
1:	The front yard and the back yard.
2:	The shed in the backyard.
3:	The neighborhood.
4:	The rest of town.
5:	Beyond city limits.

However, changing to the context of designing a shed in the backyard for this same house. The zones could roughly map to the following areas:

00:	Your own body (in the shed).
0:	The shed.
1:	The back yard.
2:	The house.
3:	The front yard and the neighborhood.
4:	The rest of town.
5:	Beyond city limits.