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[Michael Pilarski <friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com>]

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Permaculture Memorial for John Cruickshank,

 

I just found out tonight that John just passed from this
earthly plane to the next.  

 

Permaculture is so young that death has not yet become a
frequent visitor to our ranks.  Our
founders Bill Mollison and David Holmgren are still with us. Almost all of our
illustrious members are still with us. 
Here in the Pacific Northwest of North America, one of our first
illustrious members to pass on was Simon Henderson. Now we can add John
Cruickshank.  

 

John was a member of the Emissaries of Divine Light
community in Loveland, Colorado when he took his first Permaculture Design
Course at a course I led in the early 1990s at Jerome Osentowski’s in Basalt
Colorado. He subsequently went on to become one of the instructors at further
pdcs.  John was one of those guys
who could fix about anything. 
Electrical, plumbing, construction, metal, you name it. John was a
technical whiz.  An inventive
genius.  I always said that if I
had a permaculture community, I wanted somebody around like John Cruickshank 
to
keep things runnings.  

 

In the more recent years, John was living in southwest
Oregon and helping keep things running at some innovative projects there.  

 

He graced several of our Washington State Permaculture
Convergences with his wit and charm. 


 

I knew his body (which was never very big) was having
problems and had heard that he was increasingly disabled physically.  But I 
suspect that he kept a good
attitude and told jokes up till his last days. John C. always had a good
attitude when I knew him and always was a servant of the many.  He lived life 
with his eyes on the
bigger picture and with an eye towards service of the whole.  

 

He will be missed. He leaves a warm spot in the memories of
those who knew him.

 

In the years and decades to come the list of permaculture
pioneers who have passed on will grow larger and longer. We will all 
eventually
be on that list.

 

Until then live life fully.  Serve the planet to the best of your ability.

 

In memoriam

 

Michael Pilarski



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Subject: [permaculture] Need name of eco farm in Colombia doing pilot work
 in integrated agriculture + a few answers
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Q: Name the following:
A famous world class permaculture/integrated, diversified farming
organization in the country of Colombia. I once visited a website for
that or a similar organization and saved text and photos but now can not
find them. This was an exemplary project. They grew coffee and other
tree/perennial crops, processed them for market/home use and recycled
the waste biomass products to make mushroom spawn via the compost pile
for an additional source of income. They really have it together. Could
it be Gaviotas or some other group/perma-eco-community?

 From a FB message from KD:
"Carmenza Jaramillo and CENICAFE.
Shuting Chang did the original research establishing te shitake would
grow on coffee waste substrate. Ivanka Milenkovic used the spent
substrate for animal feed in a later iteration of the model, and then
Chido Govero took it to Zimbabwe and added a community component to
establish income for orphans living in poverty."

Carmenza Jaramillo L�pez
Project Leader
Jaramillo et al. (1998) determined that the agro-industrial residues
present in the coffee growing region of Colombia could be used as
substrates for the cultivation of tropical mushrooms, such as Lentinula
edodes, Pleurotus sajor-caju, Pleurotus florida, Hypsizygus marmoreus,
and Ganoderma lucidum.
Agricultural wastes, such as coffee pulp, coffee leaves, rice bran and
cotton hulls proved to be technically adequate substrates for the
cultivation of mushrooms of the genus Pleurotus, because of the times
and the percentage of mycelial invasion found in the incubation phase.
It was determined that agro-industrial residues like spent ground coffee
stem saw-dust, oak saw-dust, and corn bran are adequate materials for
the cultivation of the mushrooms Lentinula edodes, Hypsizygus marmoreus
and Ganoderma lucidum.
In 1999, Jaramillo reported average biological efficiencies between 60%
and 75% in the cultivation of Lentinula edodes on coffee by-products;
and biological efficiencies between 16% and 24% in the cultivation of
Ganoderma lucidum on an enhanced formula in the year 2000. Jaramillo
reported average biological efficiencies of 61% in the cultivation of
the fungus Pleurotus sajor-cajou on coffee silver skin. During the year
2000, Rodriguez reported average biological efficiencies of 24.2% in the
cultivation of Ganoderma lucidum on residues in the coffee-growing
region of Colombia. The same author reported average biological
efficiencies of 23.1% in the cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus on a
substrate based on coffee pulp and water Jacinth.