Re: Fwd: [permaculture] New book focused on small scale permaculture

**L* L* <l*@gmail.com>**

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:52 PM, tanya <tanyagarden@gmail.com> wrote:

> At least in my neck of the woods (urban/suburban), whenever anyone says
> they are doing permaculture, what it looks like is a weed patch. It's sort
> of synonymous with "letting nature take its course."
>

Read this page and follow links to find out what permaculture is all about.
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture Permaculture mailing
list
The Permaculture Institute PDC description on that page explains a lot.
Bill Mollison said once that any limits to a permaculture design are limits
to the imagination of the designer.
Look at his Permaculture Designers Manual, a magnificent magnum opus and
the writings and lectures of Alan Chadwick plus books by Eliot Coleman and
John Jeavons. The one this thread is about is probably very good.
Dave Jacke
"Principles expressed through patterns and processes create systems that
yield emergent properties."

Wikipedia permaculture entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
"Permaculture is a design system which aims to create sustainable
human habitats by following nature's patterns."

Dr. Lee Barnes
Editor of:
The Permaculture Connections: Southeastern Permaculture Network News
Waynesville, N.C., 28786
8 page Quarterly
Writes about permaculture:

Permaculture ("Perm"anent "agri"culture and "Perma"nent "culture")
is a sustainable design system stressing the harmonious
interrelationship of humans, plants, animals and the Earth.

To paraphrase the founder of Permaculture, designer Bill Mollison:

"Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale
intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological
resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections
and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design
and the working relationships and connections between all things. Each
component in a system performs multiple functions, and each function is
supported by many elements. Key to efficient design is observation and
replication of natural ecosystems, where designers maximize diversity
with polycultures, stress efficient energy planning for houses and
settlement, using and accelerating natural plant succession, and
increasing the highly productive "edge-zones" within the system."

Permaculture designs have been successfully and widely implemented
in third-world countries, but there is current need to expand these
principles in temperate climates, and especially urban areas to
create more enjoyable and sustainable human habitats.

*Definitions of
Permaculturehttp://ibiblio.org/permaculture/documents/permaculture-definitions.faq
<http://ibiblio.org/permaculture/documents/permaculture-definitions.faq>*

*All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is
everything. What we think we become. Buddha*

*Fukuoka san's comment in an interview where Fukuoka san, Bill Mollison and
Wes Jackson were present: "The confusion started when humans ate the Fruit
of Knowledge. Adam and Eve were thrown away from the Garden of Eden. The
only way to get back is to throw away the knowledge! Just become foolish
like a bird or baby."*

-- 
Lawrence F. London
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared/
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