There have been a wealth of movies produced in recent years about returning happily to our sustainable, food-producing roots. From a Wall Street investment banker cashing out to become a “bullish farmer” to abandoned Detroit residents reclaiming urban wastelands, to young people choosing careers as small-scale farmers, there’s a new “back to the land” movement under way. The Bullish Farmer tells the story of Wall Street investment banker John “John […]
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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 […]
Warren Brush | The Permaculture solution
Warren Brush describes himself as a certified permaculture designer and teacher, a mentor and storyteller. He is co-founder of Quail Springs Learning Oasis & Permaculture Farm, a former cattle ranch located in California’s Cuyama Valley—one of the remotest places within a three-hour drive of Los Angeles you can imagine—where his team demonstrates and teaches permaculture design principles and practices. Prior to creating Quail Springs, Brush and his wife, Cynthia Harvan, […]
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