[permaculture] rural, low budget Perm. in So Cal?

Udan Farm udanfarm at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 14 18:24:53 EDT 2009


Thank you everyone for the great ideas!!
peace,Isabel


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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: rural, low budget Perm. in So Cal? (susan macias)
   2. Re: rural, low budget Perm. in So Cal? (Jake Bucy)
   3. The sixth annual Natural Building and Sustainable Living
      Sunday, July 26 through Saturday, August 1, 2009 Thunder Mountain
      - Bath, New York (Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network)
   4. Re: new article: Sepp Holzer's Permaculture
      (Lawrence F. London, Jr.)
   5. Re: rural, low budget Perm. in So Cal? (Lawrence F. London, Jr.)
   6. Re: rural, low budget Perm. in So Cal? (lbsaltzman at aol.com)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:44:14 -0700
From: "susan macias" <smacias at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] rural, low budget Perm. in So Cal?
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Look at www.quailsprings.org   They are about an hour and a half outside of 
L.A.  They have many courses and open houses/volunteer workdays.


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Subject: [permaculture] rural, low budget Perm. in So Cal?


Hi everyone,
I am planning on visiting a friend in Santa Monica soon, who is very 
interested in jumping off into the permaculture lifestyles. They are very 
interested in living on the cheap, off grid, close to the land, 
homeschooling, rural living etc.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any rural, low-budget permaculture sites 
within an hour or two of L.A. that we could visit, so that I can "SHOW" them 
what I'm talking about! City folk can't really comprehend what it's like 
sometimes.
Thanks,Isabel



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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:58:09 -0700
From: Jake Bucy <jakebucy at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] rural, low budget Perm. in So Cal?
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Check out www.pathtofreedom.com  They are in Pasedena, a great example in
the city.  You can Youtube their video Homegrown Revolution!


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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:56:39 -0700
From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
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Subject: [permaculture] The sixth annual Natural Building and
    Sustainable Living Sunday, July 26 through Saturday, August 1, 2009
    Thunder Mountain - Bath, New York
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The sixth annual!  ~ * ~  Seven full days!
Sunday, July 26 through Saturday, August 1, 2009
hosted by The PeaceWeavers :: Thunder Mountain - Bath, New York
http://peaceweavers.com/bws/

Natural Building
   and
Sustainable Living

>From natural building and permaculture techniques 
to water and energy conservation . . . from 
alternative fuels to sourcing your food locally 
. . . this event is important for everyone 
concerned about how their lifestyle impacts our 
Earth.



It's the sixth year that the PeaceWeavers have 
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:32:52 -0400
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj at intrex.net>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] new article: Sepp Holzer's Permaculture
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paul wheaton wrote:
> This is a compilation of my notes, plus more pictures and I made a
> bunch of drawings to try and describe some of the weirder stuff.
> 
> http://www.richsoil.com/sepp-holzer/sepp-holzer-permaculture.jsp

Excellent, Paul! There are many rocket stove vids on UTub including some by a PC list member
in LA.


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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:52:19 -0400
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj at intrex.net>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] rural, low budget Perm. in So Cal?
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Udan Farm wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am planning on visiting a friend in Santa Monica soon, who is very interested in jumping off into the permaculture lifestyles. They are very interested in living on the cheap, off grid, close to the land, homeschooling, rural living etc.
> I was wondering if anyone knows of any rural, low-budget permaculture sites within an hour or two of L.A. that we could visit, so that I can "SHOW" them what I'm talking about! City folk can't really comprehend what it's like sometimes.
> Thanks,Isabel

Larry Santoyo and Larry Saltzman (both subscribers of this list) might know of sites.

Go homebrew..
What are (some of) the ingredients of this lifestyle?
"living on the cheap, off grid, close to the land, homeschooling, rural living etc."
... is a good starting point. Make lists within an outline and expand on this.

Close to the land - undeveloped land preferably, with as great a diversity of fauna and flora as possible
(for me that means birds, amphibians, annual and perennials plants, native shrubs and tree that provide resources for
their surroundings, i.e. firewood, building materials, food, wildlife food and habitat, elements that create balance
an stability and contribute to ecosystems on site (for me that also means black snakes to balance copperhead population,
dirt dobber wasps that capture black widow spiders and feed them to their young) Good reasons to preserve and enhance
wildlife in ecosystems on your property!

Living on the cheap - good place to start with that is diet; eliminate everything but bare essentials for maximum health 
through maximum nutrition - grow your own food - start with chickens, then goats; plant grapes, berries and fruit trees
and bushes (some native wild food) - make your own fermented foods (kraut and kim chee); Mollison has a great book on 
this - but staple foods in bulk, seeds, beans, grains; grow your own grain (spelt for bread, corn for cornbread and grits).

Off the grid - this may be a good time to procure equipment for off grid power generation - some resources:
Home Power Magazine - excellent
Rolls batteries (the best of all deep cycle marine off grid/solar battery, 10 year guarantee 300lbs. each - they sell 
cabling and assorted connectors and other componnts also, Trace Inverter, Bergey windmill - 1000watt unit and various 
towers 1 or 2 people can erect
the usual photovoltaic components
There is, from what I understand, something of a new generation of off grid equipment, smaller, lighter, more compact, 
cheaper, but I do not know the preferred manufacturers, look around but be picky.

Lots of excellent resources on the web for all of this - use the search engines



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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:33:42 -0400
From: lbsaltzman at aol.com
Subject: Re: [permaculture] rural, low budget Perm. in So Cal?
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If they have any public events Larry Santoyo's site and Quail Springs are both well worth seeing as is Orella Ranch on the Gaviota Coast.?? My site is urban not rural. I have a well developed backyard food forest with over a hundred trees right in the heart of Santa Barbara.

Larry Saltzman







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Sent: Sat, Jun 13, 2009 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: [permaculture] rural, low budget Perm. in So Cal?



Udan Farm wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am planning on visiting a friend in Santa Monica soon, who is very 
interested in jumping off into the permaculture lifestyles. They are very 
interested in living on the cheap, off grid, close to the land, homeschooling, 
rural living etc.
> I was wondering if anyone knows of any rural, low-budget permaculture sites 
within an hour or two of L.A. that we could visit, so that I can "SHOW" them 
what I'm talking about! City folk can't really comprehend what it's like 
sometimes.
> Thanks,Isabel

Larry Santoyo and Larry Saltzman (both subscribers of this list) might know of 
sites.

Go homebrew..
What are (some of) the ingredients of this lifestyle?
"living on the cheap, off grid, close to the land, homeschooling, rural living 
etc."
... is a good starting point. Make lists within an outline and expand on this.

Close to the land - undeveloped land preferably, with as great a diversity of 
fauna and flora as possible
(for me that means birds, amphibians, annual and perennials plants, native 
shrubs and tree that provide resources for
their surroundings, i.e. firewood, building materials, food, wildlife food and 
habitat, elements that create balance
an stability and contribute to ecosystems on site (for me that also means black 
snakes to balance copperhead population,
dirt dobber wasps that capture black widow spiders and feed them to their young) 
Good reasons to preserve and enhance
wildlife in ecosystems on your property!

Living on the cheap - good place to start with that is diet; eliminate 
everything but bare essentials for maximum health 
through maximum nutrition - grow your own food - start with chickens, then 
goats; plant grapes, berries and fruit trees
and bushes (some native wild food) - make your own fermented foods (kraut and 
kim chee); Mollison has a great book on 
this - but staple foods in bulk, seeds, beans, grains; grow your own grain 
(spelt for bread, corn for cornbread and grits).

Off the grid - this may be a good time to procure equipment for off grid
 power 
generation - some resources:
Home Power Magazine - excellent
Rolls batteries (the best of all deep cycle marine off grid/solar battery, 10 
year guarantee 300lbs. each - they sell 
cabling and assorted connectors and other componnts also, Trace Inverter, Bergey 
windmill - 1000watt unit and various 
towers 1 or 2 people can erect
the usual photovoltaic components
There is, from what I understand, something of a new generation of off grid 
equipment, smaller, lighter, more compact, 
cheaper, but I do not know the preferred manufacturers, look around but be 
picky.

Lots of excellent resources on the web for all of this - use the search engines

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