permaculture

["Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>]

This weekend was our OKC Permaculture Weekend 
Workshop taught by Dan and Cynthia Hemenway of 
Barking Frogs Permaculture. 
http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org . It was a 
great experience, although very exhausting.  Our 
schedule was: Friday night, 6:30 - 10:30, 
Saturday, 8:30 AM to 10:30 PM, Sunday 9 AM 50 6 
PM.  19 people showed up and we did good work. 
The design site was our property, and after lots 
of slides and a morning of lecture and discussion, 
the group reviewed the present draft of my design 
report and were divided into four teams. Each team 
took a part of the draft and after a site walk and 
presentation, went to work.  We got a lot of 
really good ideas out of the workshop, and the 
group is interested in continuing our relationship 
and work on a "barefoot permaculture" program to 
help people design their own properties.  Everyone 
seemed very satisfied with the experience, 
although everybody was also pretty exhausted.  But 
it was like the tiredness you get after useful 
manual labor, there was a good feeling in the 
midst of the tiredness.

Bob Waldrop, OKC