nakedcap: Preparing to Collapse in Place with Permaculture.
“The way to avoid the rush is simple enough: figure out how you will be able to live after the next wave of crisis hits, and to the extent that you can, start living that way now.” Not really a source I’d go to for permaculture advice, but interesting nonetheless.
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“Exclusive club”. Practitioners would argue, but most of the houses you see in SF with PC benefits are very upmarket ones.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 05/16/16 at 04:08 PM
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I agree with his observations! I’ve read extensively on the subject and own far too many books. This is the nugget for me, cost and exclusivity:
“As I’ve talked with different farmers, researchers, academics and others interested in alternative agriculture and ecology, the main grievance that they have with permaculture is the steep costs associated with the courses offered and the literature sold. These prohibitive costs, they argue, turn permaculture into an exclusive club that can only be enjoyed by the affluent. They have very little argument with what permaculture actually teaches or advocates for, but they find that in a region where small farmers are usually severely economically marginalized, the exclusivity of the permaculture movement is a major impediment.”
Agroecology is very enlightening too, IMNSHO.
I just want to grow lots of things, cheaply and sustainably. I continue to think this will become more and more important in the coming years, especially for Boomers like me that crashed and burned in 2007-2008… Again, IMNSHO…