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RE: Permaculture: A Starting Point
Greetings @stortebeker, thank you for your wonderful post! I have also read a lot of interesting information about permaculture and how it relates to people since ancient times. And how unfortunately it does not, with the modern industrialized ways of farming, that destroy the soil with monoculture crops. I would like to also compliment this post with Masanobu Fukuokas natural farming for anyone interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka
Thank you @creativityflow! I know, this topic is so broad, I was actually struggling with what NOT to include here. In the end I decided to just mention Mollison and Holmgren, though I'm thinking about another post where I'd like to talk about Famous Faces of Permaculture. Fukuoka is certainly one of them, just like Sepp Holzer, Geoff Lawton, Toby Hemenway, and I'd probably also include Joel Salatin, Charles Eisenstein, and E. F. Schumacher as well. But thanks for the great suggestion.
Hi @stortebeker ! Nice post! Interesting that you mention E F schumacher: I'm a big fan of his work and am always happy to see him get a mention. I love to see how you tie him into the permaculture movement (Robert ahart and forest gardening?). With regards to Fukuoka, however, did you know he denied having anything to do with Permaculture? It always amuses me how people lump him together with Mollison and the others (although they were admittedly acquaintances and appreciated each other). Anyway, I look forward to reading more of you on Steemit.
Well, I'm sure you know how many people whose words and actions are one with a certain group or movement refuse to be part of them precisely because it is a movement. Which is fine, and I wouldn't tell them otherwise. (Not sure if this was Fukuoka's reason, in fact I didn't even know he distanced himself from Permaculture.) Still, I like to group them together with them, since that's what they essentially do: Cover-cropping rice with winter rye, building an ecosystem instead to keep pest and weeds in check instead of relying on chemicals, all this fits quite well together with Permaculture. Same goes for Schumacher. I've only read Small is Beautiful, but that book was very clearly Permaculture to me: appropriate size for machines, buildings, business ventures, anything. I should consider that book for a review too, but before I do there is another one I'm burning to write about: Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein.
Hi @stortebeker ! Thanks for the reply! Schumacher is the person who brought me to permaculture (through a book he contributed to along with Robert Hart, if memory serves). Never heard of Sacred Economics, though: will need to find it and read it!