Robert Waldrop wrote:
It seems to me that the correct way of formulating
this would be to say "permaculture is a total
concept that can use natural agriculture,
terramechanics, terraforming, local food
production, wildscaping etc. " In other words,
permaculture is not just another parallel concept
to wildscaping, local food production, natural
agriculture. Permacultue IS the total concept
design system, which may use any number of
sub-systems like wildscaping, natural agriculture,
terraforming, etc. to achieve its goals. This
seems to imply a narrow vision of permaculture as
forest gardening with a design manual, or orchard
keeping, when in fact permaculture is a total
design concept under whose wings the rest of these
strategies can rest comfortably and productively.
That says it perfectly, Robert. If its OK with you I am going to stick this in the homepage for this list -
let me know if you want me to add a credit to you reading anything different than "a definition of permaculture provided
by one of this list's subscribers, Robert Waldrop, OKC". If I can fit it on I'll add it to the
Permaculture could also be described as "the source from which many Earth stewardship disciplines flow".
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