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  • From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] the legitimacy of certification
  • Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:42:37 -0500


On Thursday, September 16, 2004, at 02:03 AM, Michael Kramer wrote:

As a decentralized movement, permaculture is a movement that survives primarily on trust, because it is not controlled by anyone or any organization, at least not in the States. People pay for the design course experience and, upon graduation, they earn the right to call themselves permaculturists and use this term in their work or life.

Here in southwest WI you hear a very high percentage of back to the land organic homesteaders describing their activities as permaculture. Very few have ever attended a permaculture intensive & most that I know aren't able to attend such a course even if they wanted to because of the cost, & because most are on the land farming with animals or crops which don't allow them to take a 2 week chunk out of their lives. Or they're working 3 jobs to get by. Not surprisingly in the cold cold north, there are very few such courses in the middle of winter, & most including myself see very little reason to take a course out of our bioregion where specific information about species, resources, climate, & patterns have a much different profile. Around here the technology of permaculture spreads by word of mouth, skill-sharing, & a lot of self-study. It's the capital "P" vs small "p" thing that has been mentioned many times on this list.

~mIEKAL





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