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  • From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] For the survival thread...
  • Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:50:58 -0600

At 02:14 PM 10/31/02 -0500, you wrote:
The awareness training is so useful in that it develops one's ability to
understand the landscape, observing and knowing what is there and what the
land wants to be. So much of this is brushed over in the Permaculture
design courses, or misinterpreted as an analytical exercise. To me,
earthskills and caretaking in particular are what you do in zone 5.
Mollison says not to do anything there except learn; well, if you are one
with zone 5 then there's pleanty you can do there. The great observations
and illuminations come from zone 5; it is there that you can learn to be at
home.

At the risk of offending, this kind of quasi mystical stuff not only does very little to inspire me, if I was one of the many deeply religious people I have met through the years at organic farming functions I would likely find it out right offensive. IF this really is a system for everyone I would strongly suggest separating the new age gloss form the main body of the design system, it is not at all necessarily to develop good designs.










Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM





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