permaculture

[Joshua Dolan <rainbowwarrior14874@yahoo.com>]

Hello all,
This is my first post on this list so far.  I joined
about a week ago, or so, and have been rather
dissapointed with the discussion so far.  I would like
to speak up for the silent majority out there who are
on this list because it is a permaculture discussion. 
So far, I have not read one post about PC.  What
gives?
Can we focus on the reason we are all here?  

With that said, I would like to introduce myself and
talk a bit about what has been going on in the Finger
Lakes Region of Upstate New york.  my friend michael
burns recentley initiated an online discussion (which
you can enter at
fingerlakespermaculture-request@topica.net ) and has
sparked a flurry of activity.  He has hosted a solar
oven workshop at his homestead Cayuta Sun along with
Rebecca Cutter from the mesoamerican permaculture
institute.  Rony Lec, also of IMAP, will be
facilitating a permaculture discussion/cafe later this
month at Cayuta sun. 

At this point, there are maybe 1 or 2 certified
individuals in the region that I know of, but it seems
that there are a few more that will be certified this
summer or next.  Steve gabriel, who has recently
reterned from the findhorn foundation, will be
attending the course at earthhaven this summer and i
have tentative plans to attend the september course at
green mountain permaculture.  We are currently trying
to facilitate the formation of a permaculture guild
for the bioregion as well as collect names of people
interested in a bioregional congress next year.  So in
the 2 months or so that this discussion has been up
and running, we have made great strides toward
connecting the dots and creating something beautiful. 
I think we will have great succes in our region as it
is naturally one of the most sustainably oriented in
the usa (cornell, ecovillage, ithaca dollars, ithaca
health fund, etc. etc. etc.)

a few projects that i myself am interested in pursuing
are 1. a regional seed bank  and 2. a forest repair
network (a environmental protection group, coppicing
education, value-added forest products, and guerrilla
tree planters, etc.)  This second project is
particularly important to me.  I sometimes meditate on
the forests that once covered the entire eastern part
of the country.  My heart yearns to bring them back. 
This is a much larger vision and I would love to hear
from anyone else working on this or interested in
this.  It would be great if there someday emerges a
network of forest healers across the entire east,
wouldn't it.  anyway, i would love to here your
feedback.  Thanks for listening to my story.

In La Kesh
Josh Dolan
Pulteney, NY

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