Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

I have disagreements about the way permaculture is hyped for high dollar 
seminars, tho as a design system it's truly remarkable. What the high dollar 
seminars don't teach is how to grow food - the nuts and bolts of feeding your 
self and marketing sustainably grown production and doing it profitably. That 
is one of the most urgent priorities in today's economy. We touch on aspects 
of growing sustainably here but we're all learning. And we don't have $900 
seminars that leave you wondering where to begin.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/21/2008 at 12:26 PM Mike wrote:

>I am surprised at the source of this article. From my understanding of
>permaculture it is INCLUSIVE of those things that the author of this
>article states are necessary. Permaculture is not only those natural
>systems that we call green (In fact to call 'green' things permaculture
>is not strictly correct - permaculture is a design system that goes
>beyond green and may, in fact, incorporate decidedly (some greenies
>would say) ungreen things. Take some large and not so large earthmoving
>projects, for example. ) Bill Mollison emphatically includes sustainable
>legal, financial, political and other invisible systems in his
>definition of permaculture.
>
>After all, what use is a sustainable agriculture system without a
>sustainable culture to work it and benefit from it.
>
>Permaculture is not only a contraction of the term 'permanent
>agriculture', but also 'permanent culture'.
>
>Mike
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>
>
>Tradingpost wrote:
>> Why Bother With Permaculture?
>> http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/D16WhyBotherWPermcul.html?
>>                         (From the International Permaculture Journal.)
>>