To: sustagnet@googlegroups.com, permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>, sustain@groups.io
Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: [growingsmallfarms] Fwd: [sustagnet] Who will feed the world?
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 18:52:02 -0500
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From: Rachel Watersong <rachelwatersong@fastmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [growingsmallfarms] Fwd: [sustagnet] Who will feed the world?
Thanks for sharing these resources!
I'm with you that a shift to smaller-scale "integrated farmsteads" is
ultimately the only way that humans will be able to continue to eat in a
post-industrial world (which is coming just down the pike). The
international community/movement of folks who use the word "permaculture"
represents, as far as I know, the most organized and coherent vision for
how to use traditional and indigenous technologies and systems theories to
create a world in which people are able to eat, play, rest, and find
shelter in collaboration with natural environments rather than in a way
that is self-destructive. Permanent agriculture- ways of living and
growing food that can continue indefinitely within an ecosystem.
I am also grateful for our local organic farmers, who are trying to feed
people (and make a living) in a way that reduces the poisoning destruction
of conventional farming methods.
And, I trust and hope that the space between these two perspectives-
permaculture and organic farming- is shrinking, as permaculture folks work
on making systems that can scale up a bit and recognizing that making a
living must (for now) be part of the equation, and organic farmers work on
incorporating methods and principles of permaculture into their farms bit
by bit.