permaculture

[Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>]

> 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