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Re: [permaculture] Rich Forests and New Primitives
- From: Rick Valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>
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- Subject: Re: [permaculture] Rich Forests and New Primitives
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 08:48:30 -0700
Title: Re: [permaculture] Rich Forests and New Primitives
From: Marsha Hanzi <mhanzi@yahoo.com>
Our "forest guru", Ernst Gotsch, has been living this lifestyle for about 15 years now, and I have seen many lives changed just from visiting him...So such examples can have a social impact, in many different degrees... It seems to me that this was what Bill Mollison was originally aiming at when he created Permaculture...
I remember Bill Mollison telling us that if we go anywhere to teach we'd see an example somewhere we could point to. And I think you are very definitely spot on as far as what Bill was aiming at.
I would LOVE to live in a forest and wander, near a river, foraging-- these spaces are not so available any more. So we are trying to create the next best solution... And it is fun!
Between 3 and 12 yrs. of age the environs of the housing development I lived in were abandoned orchard, vinyard and truck farms, with a few bits of remnant forest, and many of the surrounding homes had gardens in back. So that was my lifestyle, at least when I wasn't in prison being tortured (school, I mean) It has always been difficult to explain this to those who never had the experience.
Right before my family moved away, the builders started again. My friends and I started attacking equipment, breaking windows and building fires, but two years after I moved, there were no trees, no terraced south slopes, and the streams were in pipes.
-Rick
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[permaculture] Rich Forests and New Primitives,
Marsha Hanzi, 07/03/2003
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Re: [permaculture] Rich Forests and New Primitives,
Rick Valley, 07/03/2003
- RE: [permaculture] Rich Forests and New Primitives, jamie, 07/03/2003
- [permaculture] 'Vegalene' - the old-timers' gasoline alternative... :-), John Schinnerer, 07/03/2003
- [permaculture] Interesting website on sheet mulching, good pix,, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 07/03/2003
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Re: [permaculture] Rich Forests and New Primitives,
Rick Valley, 07/03/2003
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