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  • From: "darren simo" <wannafarm@hotmail.com>
  • To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: This is all starting to scare me
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:11:36 +0000


I have always dreamed of onwing my own farm, nothing huge just a little place where my family and I can get away from the ratrace. Our own little piece of paradice.
I'm just new to the whole idea of Permaculture, but have been gardening organically ever since i was knee-high to a grasshoper. My father taught me how to, back then it was not anything special, it was the way he had been taught. We did not call it "organic", it was just the way we done it. It was smarter and cheaper to use compost, manure& mulches rather than buy fertaliser.
Later I learned about agroforestry and reforestation. These things make sence to anyone who loves the land.
Finally I found a book called Permaculture Two in the gardening section of my local libary. It was amazing this book not only tied together all of the things that I had learned, but also things i had not even thought of like water management. Not only this but it was also designed to be as labor saving and cost efficent as possible.
Then reality sinks in when I started looking all this up on the net. All the courses to learn how to design a system are full-time, hard to do when you have work to save for your dream and support your family. Not only that but there are bugger all courses on offer in the western suburbs of melbourne, even David Holmgren who lives just around the corner no longer has the base level course.Then the worst blow of all I join a mailing list to learn from the advise of experts and I find it full of political infighting and just plain nastiness on both sides.
I think the way things are going, I may give up the idea of a "PERMACULTURE" farm and just muddle out how to build paradise by myself.
Please tell me is there a brighter future to all this.

Darren


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