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  • From: Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 20, Issue 30
  • Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:50:16 -0600


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.


Is this some kind of proletarian moralistic poor mouthing that suppose to make those of us with only two jobs feel guilty, or what? It seems that everyone who thinks that pc should be taught free, by whom is not clear, are deep into some kind of victimization syndrome.

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.

If you have little or no reason for taking the course, then don't. Those who do feel they have a reason for taking the course do. What's the problem. Has someone been out there strong arming non-certified pc practioners, demanding that they take a course?? I, personally could care less if you take a course or not, nor is of great concern to me that you think that I and others should become itenerant barefoot pc teachers with a begging bowl ministering to overworked, underpaid farmers who, if they were truly practicing permaculture would be neither overworked, nor underpaid. Check out invisible structures sometime.

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

Now that I understand the profundity of "the capital "P" vs small "p", I can't wait to be enlightened on the moral and intellectual significance of the "small ~m vs the capital IEKAL"

Scott





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