“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.” – Bill Mollison “One of the most important things about […]
Archive | March, 2018
Brett Pritchard | My permaculture journey–and legacy
Permaculture is an ethics-based design system that draws on functional design principles and ecology and aims at designing resilient, low-maintenance food and human habitation systems that follow ecological principles and mimic the patterns and cycles of natural systems. The three main permaculture ethics were devised by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, the co-founders of permaculture. It is this ethical basis that most dramatically differentiates permaculture from other agricultural techniques such […]
Andrew Clinard | Tales from the communal farm
Cast iron fervor “I can’t believe you just put soap on that!” a zealous student shouts at his peer on dishwashing duty. There is nothing that will upset a hippie more than improper maintenance of cast iron pans. The most pacifistic woo-heavy Californian will see red if they catch an amateur with soap in one hand and cast iron in the other. If the newbie has disgracefully scrubbed a pan […]
T J Barnum | Entangled world
Once during winter I talked with a black walnut tree who was cold and sleepy and ordered me to leave him be There was a mouse entangled in a sticky trap she shook, filled with death anxiety a quick finish was all I could give her I helped a neighbor find a lost pig in a field of tall grass and brambles the pig looked up then led the way […]
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