The operative word I'm focusing on in "grow all your own food" here
is "all." That's the part I think is unnecessary and a distraction.
Grow food. Yes. Work toward self reliance. Yes. All that stuff. But
the goal of growing ALL your own food is not something that any
permaculture principle would suggest or encourage, will distract
people from more important and relevant goals, and I'd like to see it
stricken from the vocabulary of permaculturists. I don't know how
that idea crept into our lexicon. That's all I'm sayin' here.
We were pretty frickin' self reliant in our rural decade: cut
firewood for all our heat, harvested 100% of our domestic water,
recycled all our graywater, grew a large percentage of our fruit and
veggies, traded with locals for things we needed, built much of the
house myself, planted trees and built soil to heal the land, lived on
next to no money. So I feel like I'm speaking from experience here.
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