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  • From: chauncey williams <chaunceyfree@yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Sources for Legume seeds and trees
  • Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:50:57 -0700 (PDT)

I am looking for a good source of legume seeds and plants that I can
purchase.  Does anyone know of a good nursery or supplier in the Southern
California region?  I have been having a tough time tracking down reliable
leads.  Thanks in advance.
Sean




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Subject: [permaculture] Trends in America
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Hi Everyone,

I admit, I do not keep up with this list nearly as much as I would like to,
but I'd like to start a discussion about a trend I see, and perhaps how to
alter it, or harness it, or ???

I live in a southern state, so we are fairly far behind in Permaculture, as
in, classes being taught, and interest in general.
I am a new Permaculture teacher, trying to get the word out, and my partner
and I will be student teaching our first design course this winter.

What I have noticed here in our southern state is a trend of fairly wealthy
couples, or single middle aged women, who "decide" to start a farm,
eco-village, or other farm related business, with little prior knowledge.
They go buy the land with little realization of what to look for, realize
that it's a lot of work, and then want someone to come "assess" their land.
Most of them want to host a class (mainly because they are too busy to leave
the farm) and hope that it will include lots of people planting trees for
them. In other words, they want someone to come "DO" permaculture to their
farm, and hope it won't cost much. Generally they also hold down jobs in
another town or they live part time in another place. They had enough money
to create the beginning of the dream but no clue how to sustain it or build
it.

I don't want to come off sounding like a whiner here. But this is happening
over, and over and over here in my state. You can pretty much map them out,
about 100 miles apart.
We are feeling very much pulled by every little wind as permaculture
teachers, so we are having to be very selective about what we do.

What I was wondering-I don't mean to just crab about it- is are any other
Permaculture Teachers out there experiencing this, and what do you tell
folks, and how could we get them all together? Mind you it's a 5 hour drive
from one end of the state to another.

This is really, in my opinion, an indicator of our larger American society in
general. We have enough money to go off in our little corner and live, and we
want others to "work for us", as we have come to expect. (I don't think that,
but I think American society in general-or at least upper and upper-middle
class society does.)

Granted the tide seems to have turned, and people may be more serious and
honest about wanting to live simply and sustainably...

but I just wondered what my fellow Perm. folks out there are experiencing,
and how they are turning THE PROBLEM INTO THE SOLUTION.

Peace,
Isabel






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