Here in southwest WI you hear a very high percentage of back to the land organic homesteaders describing their activities as permaculture. Very few have ever attended a permaculture intensive & most that I know aren't able to attend such a course even if they wanted to because of the cost, & because most are on the land farming with animals or crops which don't allow them to take a 2 week chunk out of their lives. Or they're working 3 jobs to get by.
Not surprisingly in the cold cold north, there are very few such courses in the middle of winter, & most including myself see very little reason to take a course out of our bioregion where specific information about species, resources, climate, & patterns have a much different profile.
Around here the technology of permaculture spreads by word of mouth, skill-sharing, & a lot of self-study. It's the capital "P" vs small "p" thing that has been mentioned many times on this list.Now that I understand the profundity of "the capital "P" vs small "p", I can't wait to be enlightened on the moral and intellectual significance of the "small ~m vs the capital IEKAL"
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