permaculture

["Kelly Lockamy" <garden_muse@bellsouth.net>]

does anyone know why this message keeps getting sent out again and again???
can somebody fix it??

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 6:21 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [permaculture] forwarded message from Robyn
Williamson:PCD Courses]


> Subject: Re: [permaculture] SOS/Make the toolbox bigger/ was It's free on
the web/ was question about PCDcourseprices
> From: Robyn Williamson <rz.williamson@optusnet.com.au>
> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:05:34 +1000
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
>
> On Saturday, September 11, 2004, at 03:31 am, Lawrence F London, Jr. and
GlobalCirclenet wrote:
>
> >>  backyard garden is a magnificent microcosm
> >> elegant aesthetics on the cheap.
> >>
> >>> , but doesn't reach the broader potential of
> >>> permaculture to alter industrial agriculture. That may be a difficult
>
> >> Certainly it does; how about 30 million backyard gardens in the US;
think
> >> of the
> >> potantial to alter industrial agriculture if they were done naturally
> >> within permaculture systems.
> >>
> >>> elusive goal for any author.  On a more positive note, I'm encouraged
to
> >>> see interest in " free peer to peer open source system of permaculture
> >>> training, knowledge base, & access to resources" from "mIEKAL".
>
> >> That will happen.
>
>
> It is already happening here in Oz:  The Seed Savers Network of Byron Bay
provides permaculture-based training, knowledge and access to
> resources for around 60 established Local Seed Networks.  We work as
volunteers out of community gardens, backyards and lounge rooms across
> the country.  We attend expos, trade shows, exhibitions etc. and give
talks to local community groups, encouraging people to grow something,
> anything, in their own backyard and to save/share the seeds.  We give
away, trade or sell our own organically grown, open-pollinated,
> GE-free seeds of food plants.  Whoever controls the seeds, controls the
food supply and at the moment three-quarters of the global vegetable
> seed market is controlled by 5 seed companies.
>
> As many of you are undoubtedly aware, we have lost 75% of agricultural
biodiversity in the last century and the genepool continues to shrink
> at the rate of 2.5% per annum (FAO State of the World Report 2000).  This
puts traditional varieties of vegetables amongst the most
> threatened and endangered of all species.
>
> "All the flowers
> of all the tomorrows
> are in the seeds of today"
> [Indian proverb]
>
> It's the same for our food.
>
> This is an SOS to anyone out there - please help to Save Our Seeds.
>
> Best wishes from Robyn
>
> CONTACT DETAILS:
>
> Robyn Williamson
> PDC, Urban Horticulturist
> Hon Sec, Fagan Park Community Eco Garden Committee
> Local Seed Network Coordinator
> NORTH WESTERN SYDNEY COMMUNITY SEED SAVERS
> ph/fx:  (612) 9629 3560
> email:  rz.williamson@optusnet.com.au
> http://www.communityfoods.com.au
> http://www.au.gardenweb.com/directory/fpceg
> http://www.seedsavers.net
>
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