| Permaculture
Permaculture, an elision of the words permanent and agriculture... is a wholistic design strategy that strives to place our selves in right relationship with the processes and cycles of nature and her ability to provide and produce abundantly. Through observation of processes and successes in the natural landscape, and optimizing conditions for our purposes, we stand to activate the reclamation of our own lives on a local level by benefiting from fresh local organic food, robust soils, happy relationships between plants, animals and people, our abodes, and communities. As above, so below and visa versa: ...What is in our soil is in our blood... what is "in our blood" is the foundation for what we can grow in terms of the quality of our lives... During an era when I was collaborating with author Peter Tompkins while he wrote Secrets of the Soil (1970's), the alternative agriculture newspaper ACRES USA was arriving regularly at our door and we were reviewing such developments as Alex Podolinski's work in vivifying – through bio-dynamic agricultural practices – hundreds of thousands of acres of decimated soil in Australia; Masanobu Fukuoka's book One Straw Revolution was well-earmarked and passed amongst a growing number of farmers who were reawakening to the near-ecstatic possibilities that our ancestors knew; Findhorn community in Scotland was emerging as a world-class teaching center [From the very beginning in 1962 the community was founded on the principles of inner listening, co-creation with nature and service]. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the term and published their collaboration in 1978: Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements... offering another rallying place for REITERATING what we had always "known" yet were beginners in putting into practice: the value of working in consort rather than in opposition to nature for our sustenance, vivacity, and comfort. Permaculture Ethics: care for the planet  care for the people share the abundancePermaculture principles:[David Holmgren's]
RESOURCES for Reading, Browsing, and Trainings in PermacultureDavid Holmgren Co-originator of the permaculture conceptwww.permaculture.com David Holmgren is best known as the co-originator with Bill Mollison of the permaculture concept following the publication of 'Permaculture One' in 1978. Since then he has written several more books, developed three properties using permaculture principles, conducted workshops and courses in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Japan and North America and now in Latin America. Grow Food not Lawns – archived newslettersGrow Food not Lawns is a project I co-instigated for Front Range Colorado in 2007 with collaborator Bob Jones; it has evolved into Home Grown Food [homegrownfoodcolorado.org] and continues to promote and sustain neighborhood-scale food production."The One-Straw Revolution" by Masanobu Fukuokaonestrawrevolution.netYouTube Video: This newly produced September 2010 video about Masanobu Fukuoka and the principles of "The One Straw Revolution" features narration and photos provided by ... Stella Natura 2012 Biodynamic Planting Calendar and Planting ...
stellanatura.comStella Natura 2012 Biodynamic Planting Calendar Planting Charts and Thought-Provoking Essays Edited by Sherry Wildfeuer. This Calendar has many aspects and is a greatly-valued part of my reference material. -she Available from amazon.com or from stellanatura.com Acres U.S.A., the monthly magazinewww.acresusa.comAcres U.S.A. is North America's largest and oldest publisher of sustainable agriculture books and information teaching farmers how to grow healthy food without ... Four Season Farm - Welcome to the site of Eliot Coleman and ...
www.fourseasonfarm.comFour Season Farm is the home and workplace of organic gardening experts, Barbara Damrosch and author/lecturer Eliot Coleman. Food Not Lawns International
www.foodnotlawns.netTurning yards into gardens and neighborhoods into communities. Created by author of Food Not Lawns, Eugene, OR resident Heather Flores Available from amazon.com Findhorn Foundation | spiritual community, education centre ...www.findhorn.orgSpiritual community, education centre and eco-village working in cooperation with nature. Moray, Scotland. Midwest Permaculture Home Pagewww.midwestpermaculture.comCreated by consummate permaculturalist Bill Wilson, Midwest Permaculture provides webinars, 8-day design certification courses, education, seminars, and classes in permaculture. "Permaculture is a creative and artful way of living, where people and nature are both preserved and enhanced by thoughtful planning, the careful use of resources, mimicking the patterns found in nature (bio-mimicry) and a respectful approach to life. Thus embraced, these attributes create an environment where all may thrive for untold generations." Bill Wilson Andrew Millison's Page - Beaver State Permaculture
www.beaverstatepermaculture.com/profile/AndrewMillisonAndrew Millison, amongst an impressive list of permaculture credentials, has designed and brought permaculture design curricula to both Oregon State University and Prescott College in Arizona. Friends of the Trees Society
www.friendsofthetrees.netPermaculture features and trainings in the northwest with Friends of the Trees founder and wild-crafter Michael Pilarski Agro-ecology Northwest...
www.cascadiapermaculture.comWhole systems design for self-reliant living. Consultation, research, and permacultue courses and workshops ...with Jude Hobbs and assoc. High Altitude Food Forestwww.crmpi.orgCertification trainings and demonstration site with Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute and Jerome Ostenkowski Secrets of the Soil
Permaculture Activist MagazinePermacultureactivist.net"Our purpose is to supply information which enables people everywhere to provide for their own & their communities' needs for food, energy, shelter, & a decent life without exploitation or pollution & from the smallest practical area of land." Published by my absolute favorite permaculture teacher, Peter Bane! - she
The Permaculture Activist
Helping You DESIGN a Healthy Future...Today In 2010, The Permaculture Activist magazine celebrates its 25th year promoting the design of sustainable human communities and thriving regenerative ecosystems. The Activist is North America's leading (and the world's oldest) permaculture periodical. When you subscribe and practice what you learn in these pages you can make a big difference, have a lot of fun, find new friends, propagate love and justice, help heal the earth's wounds, and earn the praise of your descendants. Got time for that? Everyone asks "is Permaculture a viable economic strategy?" Only if you see life as precious beyond gold can you say 'Yes!' Anybody today who can't see the food out of their windows, is in danger of starvation by politico-economic systems, all of which are bankrupt, none of which can face facts, and all of which are corrupted by money, power, and "market forces!" – Bill Mollison, from p594 Travels in Dreams 1997 autobiography. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
