From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: Re: [SANET-MG] What the heck is permaculture?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:54:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: [SANET-MG] What the heck is permaculture?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:15:56 -0400
From: Melissa Miles <freethought01@MAC.COM>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU
Perhaps permaculturists seem like zealots to some because once we
discover how simple/elegant designing WITH nature can be, we cannot
resist the urge to tell everyone we know of these common sense
practices. That was my own experience, at any rate.
Regarding Farmers & Pc:
Eastern Pa Permaculture Guild just received grant funding from an org
which supports the Ag sector in our region (the SE PA Ag Partnership).
They are paying a rather large percentage of the Fall Permaculture
Design Course fees for 10 students. The value of Permaculture to Ag
systems is being recognized. People care is an important ethic in Pc and
Pc organizations generally do offer some scholarships &/ or work-study
opportunities (& sliding fee scale, based on ability to pay) to help
making training affordable as well.
It is the multidisciplinary nature if Permaculture that, IMHO, requires
many if us to change the way we've been taught to think
--compartmentalization is a symptom of our (broken) system, a hallmark
of the pervasive industrialization of & attempt at the "mechanization"
of everything... (Food sys., education, scientific disciplines).
Integration & cooperation work well in natural systems, why fight it?!
But Change, even if it's for the better, can be scary for many of us.
As an Env. Biologist/Conservation planner, Ecological Restoration
practitioner (& Permaculture designer & teacher), I have been working to
bring "people care" to ecological restoration projects in my corner if
the world. People are not viewed as the problem in environmental systems
in Permaculture, but rather part of the solution to the problems.
Bringing them into the fold insures the success of a restoration
project- giving people a stake in the outcome makes them better stewards
if the land. Or, at least that has been my experience.
And still, I am learning :)
All the best,
Melissa
[permaculture] Fwd: Re: [SANET-MG] What the heck is permaculture?,
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 10/25/2011