Fuck Yeah Permaculture: Archive

Fuck Yeah Permaculture

January 2011

34 posts

“I want to stress in the most emphatic terms that it is my view that Shiva is...”

– *Dale Carrico, from “Vandava Shiva on Resource Descent and Permaculture Politics” (11/25/07). http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2007/11/vandava-shiva-on-resource-descent-and.html (via freeman23)

Bio-Agriculture: a Solution to Climate Change. →

If I were to compare industrial, monocrop agriculture with permaculture or organic biological agricultural methodologies, and then boil my observations down to their base differences, I would describe them thus: Industrial agriculture focusses on feeding the plant Permaculture and organic biological agriculture focus on feeding the soil For the industrialists, if they have a big green...

thehumanspiritneedsnature asked: Hi, I saw that some people are looking for permaculture certification classes. I took a permaculture course at the University of Maine with Emily Markides, she is taking our class to Sicily in March to get our permaculture certificate. The only reason for Sicily, is because this couple from an ecovillage in Australia chose to find a new site of their own, and have been looking for the last 15...

@thislastwholeearth

and anyone else looking for a permaculture project/PDC certification in the Pacific Northwest USA: A good friend of mine is doing his Permaculture Design Course in Washington state in a few weeks. It is run by people from Herb’n Wisdom and Bullock’s Permaculture Homestead at Wild Thyme Farm in Oakville, WA. Of course he has not actually done the course yet, so as far as what the...

If you use torrents, here's a link to the torrent... →

Full book in pdf format… Of course, you should buy the book, but it’s a bit of a mammoth (and therefore quite expensive) so if it’s not quite in your budget just yet, this is a good alternative. I’ve popped it onto my Kindle and it’s great!

thislastwholeearth asked: hey FYP,
im planning on taking a permaculture design course in the us (preferably in the pacific northwest somewhere since thats where im driving this spring to do some serious WWOOFing) and i was wondering if you had any tips on specific teachers or insitutions that youve heard great things about. Ive got my eye on the "regenerative design institute" but id love to hear what you...

“Suppose that an archaeologist who had visited from outer space were trying to...”

– Excerpt from Jared Diamond’s essay ‘The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race’.

General Plant Biology →

The more you know about the way plants work, the better you can help them grow! You certainly don’t need to be a biologist have success in permaculture, but some basic knowledge could come in handy.

The Three Sisters: Corn, Beans and Squash →

Permaculture, Native American style. I used this technique last season in my otherwise monoculture garden and the Three Sisters section of my garden required the least amount of work and produced more than enough food! This could be a great thing to try if you are just starting to learn about permaculture and growing your own food. It is very simple and easy and doesn’t require a lot of...

What are Vegan and Veganic Permaculture? →

In this post, I am going to get things started with eighteen PowerPoint slides from a talk I gave on this subject in July of 2010. These slides begin to answer the question: what is veganic permaculture?

Path to Freedom - look what can be done on just a... →

elige: So wonderful :) You don’t need a huge farm to create a permaculture oasis!

livingwind: A comprehensive look into backyard permaculture practices. Extremely informative and inspiring. Perth, Western Australia.

“Modern agriculture is not a system for producing food, but for producing money.”

– Bill Mollison.

Free Permaculture Lectures from North Carolina... →

“By its very nature, [agriculture] is an intrusion and hence a disruption of the...”

– Daniel Hillel: Out of the earth, Civilization and the life of the soil, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991.

livingwind: Turning bad news into good news. Sheet mulching with Bill Mollison. Sweet. I just planted a yacon into my sheet mulched bed today!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/garden/15mushroom... →

A New York Times article on do-it-yourself mushroom cultivation. My adviser, Ken Mudge, and his Camp Mushroom are mentioned on the second page.

The Domestication Spectrum: How Our Relationships... →

Our bonds with other species are as vital, to survival, as our bonds with other people. If we don’t choose our company carefully, disaster is likely to ensue. As a species, we should be shopping for the best relationships. There’s a lot a stake, and we don’t want to be abused or neglected. When searching for a good fit, we should keep in mind the following characteristics of good...

“The work of growing food contributes to your health long before you sit down to...”

– Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food.

“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the...”

Permaculture Principles: Clearing up the... →

Permaculture is a philosophy or design discipline that seems to mean a lot of different things to different people - from a fairly purist focus on ‘permanent agriculture’, as the term was originally coined, to a broader perspective that even integrates permaculture with ‘inner sustainability’. It seems to me that in general, this ‘broad church’ is an asset -...

“I have heard it argued that if projects can’t exist without free labor...”

– Volunteerism: The Cheap Oil of Permaculture?