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  • From: KAKerby@aol.com
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: [farmlink] Michael Maki, 15 Acres Permaculture Property
  • Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:57:15 -0500 (EST)

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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