permaculture

[John Schinnerer <eco_living@yahoo.com>]

Aloha,

Not being shy, I've got a question for all potentially involved in
this:

> Here's your chance to participate in a real world PC Design
> Challenge on 
> a 450 farm preserve in beautiful south central Kentucky; and to help 
> demonstrate that PC can work on such a scale. 
> ...
> If we could get everyone together for 3-5 days we should be able to
> gather 
> enough detailed observations to begin the PC Simulation in earnest
> via a forum on the Internet. 
> ...
> So, don't be shy please let me hear from you soon. We'll need to do a
> lot of preliminary planning, and coordination to make this work:)

For a while lately we've had a 'design charette' thread going on the
list for Frank's farm.  What I've observed is this:

1) Frank, you ask lots of good questions relevant to PC designing for
your land.  

2) List, we give him lots of good (or at least interesting and/or zany
:-) answers.  

3) Frank, you are consistently appreciative of our feedback and input. 
You also consistently write that in most cases you do not have one,
some or all of the time, money, person-power or equipment to implement
what you often agree are good design ideas on your fairly large spread.

4) Repeat from step 1) above.

My question is:  what are y'all going to do differently before and/or
during getting together in person at Frank's place so that you don't
simply repeat the above pattern?

Assuming you don't want to just repeat it in person, that is.  I
personally would find it rather frustrating, were I in the shoes of any
party to such a situation.


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John Schinnerer, MA
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- Eco-Living -
Cultural & Ecological Designing
Food - Water - Shelter - Community - Technology
john@eco-living.net
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