Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Anytime an advertisement for a permaculture course comes up, I'm going to 
point out that it's only an ecological living philosophy, not a how-to for a 
complete grower, not a route to fast, economical food production for oneself, 
or a neighborhood, or a farmers market. Also I'd point out that Mollison 
*lived* his philosophy for many years and was a university professor, and has 
been seriously at odds with the Americans who have tried to cash in on his 
work and name.

I notice the cost is not revealed up front; it rarely is. The cost of these 
weekend or weeklong seminars is out of reach for the millions of poor and 
working class who need growing instruction the most. Mollison's book is a lot 
cheaper.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our 
most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its 
renewal is our only hope.
   - Wendell Berry
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On 5/11/2006 at 6:49 AM P Corcoran wrote:

>Association for Regenerative Culture announces
>Permaculture Design Courses
>will be held near Roanoke, Virginia
>
>Fundamentals of Permaculture Design
>May 26 - June 3, 2006
>Permaculture Design Practicum
>July 21 - 29, 2006
>
>
>"Permanent agriculture" or "permanent culture," a term coined by
>Australians David Holmgren and Bill Mollison in the 1970s, describes a
>design system for creating human settlements that function in harmony with
>nature. Incorporating traditional knowledge, modern science, and the
>ecological patterns of the living world, permaculture design is applicable
>to farms, gardens, organizations, housing developments, towns and
>villages, or city neighborhoods.
>
>Instructors: Peter Bane is the publisher of “Permaculture Activist.” Since
>1992 Peter has taught permaculture to over 700 students in locales from
>Canada to Patagonia. Last year he gave the closing keynote presentation to
>the 7th International Permaculture Convergence in Croatia.
>Keith Johnson was Director of Sonoma (California) Permaculture until 1997.
>For the past 10 years he has managed a design, consulting, and
>construction company specializing in masonry, rock walls, waterfalls,
>earth repair, food forestry, and runoff management.
>Dr. Lee Barnes received a Ph.D. in Environmental Horticulture from the
>University of Florida and has served as an agricultural extension agent
>for the state of North Carolina. He is a land stewardship consultant and a
>dowser who is passionate about bioregional and environmental education in
>the Southern Appalachians.
>Dave O’Neill is the owner and operator of Radical Roots Community Farm and
>the Director of the Arboretum at James Madison University in Harrisonburg,
>Virginia. Dave teaches permaculture design and organic gardening classes
>at Blue Ridge Community College and has experience in landscape design.
>
>For more information about the courses, including the course syllabus,
>tuition, and registration forms, go to:
>http://www.permacultureactivist.net/DesignCourse/PcSyllabus.htm,
>  or call (540) 344-5013.
>
>
>
>
>If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.
>If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.
>If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.
>
>Chinese Proverb
>
>
>
>
>Pamela Corcoran 540-344-5013