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Re: [permaculture] (fwd) Turning the world upside down: Genetic
- From: <permed@nor.com.au>
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- Subject: Re: [permaculture] (fwd) Turning the world upside down: Genetic
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 02 15:59:39 -0000
> Subject: Turning the world upside down
>
> the article below, from the india together website, focuses on
> Lakshmi and the work of the Deccan Development Society (DDS) -
> an organisation which, as the article says, "is turning ecologically-
> smart, people-centred agriculture into living reality, and
> demonstrating daily that high-technology, capital-intensive farming
> is unnecessary and inappropriate for hundreds of millions of the
> world's poorest people." maybe a bit long to read, but a quite nice
> example for SUSTAINability
I read the following article with great interest. The DDS organised the
first Pc Design Course in India in 1987 which I co-taught with Bill
Mollison (where the mandala garden was invented). Dr Venkat set up a PC
demonstration farm on DDS land following the course and trained the
Sangham women in permaculture, instigated a kitchen garden programme,
medicine gardens, seed banks, community forestry and a plethora of other
initiatives. For those who've seen the Global Gardener video, Venkat and
the DDS farm at Pastapur were featured in the section on the tropics.
Robyn
Robyn
- Re: [permaculture] (fwd) Turning the world upside down: Genetic, permed, 07/03/2002
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