permaculture

[KAKerby@aol.com]

I hope this is an OK thing to post on the forum.  I figured folks on  this 
list would appreciate knowing about this opportunity.....
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
 
 
  
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 From: sarah.cascadeharvest@gmail.com
To:  farmlink@lists.cascadeharvest.org
Sent: 11/18/2012 7:58:25 A.M. Pacific  Standard Time
Subj: [farmlink] Michael Maki, 15 Acres Permaculture  Property




   
 
Message from Mike about  North Camp:The North Camp- El Campo del Norte
A Permaculture Model and Learning  Center

In 1984, Sego Jackson, Michael  Maki, and Beverly Reed founded the Maritime 
Permaculture Institute in  Olympia to promote the ideas of Permaculture, 
which had just then come to  these shores from Australia. We hosted Bill 
Mollison and others for the  first PC Design Course in the Pacific Northwest 
at 
the Evergreen State  College Organic Farm, where Michael and his wife Barbara 
were resident  caretakers at the time. A couple of years later we helped 
organize the  International Permaculture Convergence, also at Evergreen 
College, and  brought together such eccentric luminaries as Mollison, 
Masunobu 
Fukuoka,  and Wes Jackson of the Land Institute in Kansas. (You can Google 
all 
of  these people today; then the internet did not yet exist and fax and  
answering machines were the latest technology!) Maki also taught at the  
college as an adjunct faculty with courses like Agroforestryand Market  
Gardening. 
He is a founding father of the Tilth Association. Send me an  email at 
_agrofor@localaccess.com_ (mailto:agrofor@localaccess.com)  if you'd  like a 
more complete cv on me 
Mike Maki is a life-long  resident of coastal Washington, raised surrounded 
by neighboring gardeners  and helping his Grandma in her backyard garden. 
An avid gardener from then  on, he has always appreciated the challenge of 
growing food in the rainy,  cool coastal climate. Seeing the destruction- and 
resilience- of the coastal  rainforest and the decline of local agriculture, 
he determined that there  must be better ways for people to live more 
lightly and sustainably on the  land. Enthusiasm for organic gardening, and 
even 
in a larger sense for  organic living, led him into research, networking, 
and practice, practice,  practice. The learning and the practice continue to 
unfold. The current  campus, aka North Camp, is a work in progress this last 
few  years.

Now life changes are making it  apparent that the time is right to open the 
North Camp campus to the right  folks to reside and grow and continue the 
research. Permaculture and  Agroforestry work well in tropical and 
sub-tropical climates. The mild  climate of the Pacific Coast, inland enough 
to get 
out of the fog belt,  blessed by two meters of annual rain, where some of the 
deepest organic  topsoil layers on the planet occur naturally is the setting 
for this  experiment. Terrace-building has been a successful way to create  
microclimates and soil gathering growing spaces on four acres. The first 
two  of a series of planned cabins are complete. The main house has the usual 
 
modern amenities, plus a sauna. A "cargo-tecture" structure is in process. 
A  nice shop space, refrigerators and food processing facilities, and much 
more  are in place. 

The vision is for a  modest retreat center or community land base on 15 
paid-for acres. Much has  been done the last five years. The lumber for two 
more cabins is on site. A  portable sawmill outfit is part of the tool chest. 
Permaculture plantings  abound. 

I am looking for partners, or  perhaps even the right buyer for the whole 
property. Other options include  purchase of five or ten acres. All kinds of 
options and opportunities are  possible. Let's talk! –MM 



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