permaculture

["Naomi & Rick Coleman" <peds@tpg.com.au>]

Dear Darren,

We'd love to show you the brighter future!!

Come and visit our little spot of paradise, low budget, high productivity
potential, great lifestyle with thriving young family and "expert" pc
teachers, and although not on the west side of Melbourne, we are only 2
hours away, and I promise you'll find it worthwhile. And to brighten up your
day, I'll even offer you a free tour (we usually charge)

Don't give up, all social movements are subject to politics, and hopefully
we will all grow from the discussions .

TO OTHERS READING THIS, PLEASE LETS DEAL WITH ISSUES NOT PERSONALITIES. I
TOO HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE NATURE OF SOME OF THE CORRESPONDANCES WHICH IS
WHY I'VE STAYED OUT OF IT TILL NOW.

Email me off list or call on 03 5664 3301 to arrange a tour if you are
interested.
Naomi Coleman
Southern Cross Permaculture Institute

----- Original Message -----
From: "darren simo" <wannafarm@hotmail.com>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2001 6:11
Subject: This is all starting to scare me


> 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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