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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

Infiltrating USDA activities with Permaculture is a great idea.  No 
objection there.
I don't know if or how much it has been worked on - Scott, Lawrence, any 
info on that?

AND as far as HG goes, what you're proposing is IMO a far larger game 
that needs far larger (or at least more!) players. Coordinating PC 
people and USDA to make connections to get a SARE grant for trainings is 
IMO *way way WAY* outside the scope of our HG project.  Let's look for 
simpler grant solutions for our particular project funds.

This could be a particularly heinous example of "feature creep"... ;-)

An idea alongside the above:

If some PC folks have relations with USDA types somewhere already, let's 
go to them about being the people who fit this grant model and see if 
they're interested.  Then you just have to fill in the blanks instead of 
create the whole connection from scratch.

In other words, IMO this is a whole 'nother project, definitely not part 
of HG - though HG could obviously be useful to that whole 'nother 
project were some group(s) to take it on.




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