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["Felicity Wright" <flickwright@ozemail.com.au>]

Great post! thanks for sharing. where are you/what climate?

And good to hear from a new voice (maybe you are not new but don't
think I've seen you post before). flick
 
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From: "permaculture" 
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Sent:Mon, 8 Oct 2012 11:18:09 -0400
Subject:[permaculture] Being stuck in a city....

 Georg --

 I, too live in town, and I own only my lot here. I do practice pc in
 my yard and assist others as well, and hope to install another 500
 square feet of superfood and supporting plants next spring. I, too,
 have ideas and wonderings about aquaculture out back.

 But I dont feel "stuck" here. Only limited, and I can overcome that.
 The problems of planetary destabilization motivate me to do high
 impact things, things I can't do in my yard, but maybe in a vacant
 field a few miles away.

 My borrowed land farm is up to 52 sheep and growing. Estimated manure
 value is $140 per acre per year. This summer saw around 0.5 %
 increase in soil organic matter in a field that was dead from years
of
 commercial cropping. Instead of eroding, topsoil is growing -- the
 best half of my main pasture averages 8" now instead of nothing. More
 carbon is being added to the soil.

 This is a large multiple of the impact that my yard has. More CO2 is
 sequestered in a few ares of pasture than my family emits. That's the
 good news.

 There is great virtue in small scale permaculture. The problems of
 the planet tell us that that approach, while necessary, is not nearly
 sufficient. Desertification and extinction will continue unabated.
 We need more city people, if not farming, then being involved with
 good farmers to help their farms become successful. Joel Salatin is a
 living litany of ways that can happen.

 The bad news is that positive impact on any scale is a ways away.
 There is a huge gap in understanding, even with the environmental and
 conservation communities, about high impact solutions to these
issues.
 Only a small fraction of us may be motivated to try any of these
 things, meaning the challenge is greater for those that do
 participate, if net positive results are to happen. The path is not
 clear to increased involvement and impact. Emergence is quite a few
 years away, while the situation continues to worsen.

 The best immediate hope is that the pc community and those with a
 similar bent can grab hold of the idea that there is a lot that can
be
 done outside the city, beyond the backyard, beyond the csa and the
 community garden, beyond carbon neutrality, beyond the resignation
 that there is nothing we can do if we don't reduce emissions. Pc
 training should make the impression that this massive problem
requires
 much more than the goals of self sufficiency and elegant designs. If
 this can emerge in the ever growing pc community, and soon, it can
 begin to creep into the mainstream.

 Un-stuck. Connection with our nature, ten times as many carbon
 farmers as there are farmers now, de-citification. Any other good
 thoughts?

 Glenn

 Message: 5
 Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 16:06:20 +0200
 From: georg parlow 
 Subject: [permaculture] pc aquaponics
 To: permaculture 
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 Hi there,

 Being stuck in a city I recently started pondering and researching
the
 idea of aquaponics. The web tells me of Max Meyers doing aquaponics
 the permaculture way. I am am pc designer myself for almost 20 years
 now, with moderate experience in counselling, design and
 implementation. I am wondering what he does differently that any
 decent permie would not think of my himself? Any experiences? Any
 reports or details of his approach anywhere on the web?

 thanks,
 Georg
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