"If you plan right, all you do is reap."
PERMACULTURE 101
Permaculture rejects the notion that people are separate from nature and inevitably destructive, or that destruction of the environment is justified in order to provide jobs or profits for people.
--Starhawk (for Foundation for Intentional Community)
INTRODUCTORY DESCRIPTION AND QUOTES
Permaculture is a journey and a new way at approaching life. Heather Jo Flores says, "a lot of it is about patterns recognition". It's relearning and making an attempt at developing a harmonious relationship with Nature. It's realizing the current predominate culture has not been designed with harmony in mind. Thus, "permies" are kind of punk. Stephen Brooks likes to bring it into energetic terms and tells people it's about "maximizing hammock time" and if you design right, "all you do is reap".
PERMACULTURE IS NOT "JUST GARDENING"
LET'S EXPLORE "SOCIAL PERMACULTURE"
- Short definition by Beyond Buckthorns
- Social permaculture, what is it?
- Social permaculture (people care and social systems design)
- Principles of Social Permaculture by Tools for Change
Principles in Action by the Permaculture Research Institute
But Permaculture often does entail gardening...
GENERAL PERMACULTURE RESOURCES
PERMACULTURE EDUCATION
- FREE Permaculture For Beginner's course by Eco Design Hive
- Creating an organic garden in Southern Nevada by University of Nevada Reno
- Kellogg Garden Products - education, 10+ free organic gardening guides, and products!
- Regenerative Soil and Microscopy by Matt Powers
- Nevada Planting Guide by Urban Farmer
- Growing Your Own Greens YouTube channel
- Sierra Harvest Guide for growing your own food at home
- Nevada Bee Identification Guide
- Community Seed Network
- Rodale Institute (75 years of regenerative and organic farming research)
- Rainwater Harvesting
- Water Stories
- Garden Tower Project (online purchasing)
- Seed Savers Exchange (national seed swap)
- Organic Seed Alliance
- Seed suppliers list by Homestead and Chill
- Permaculture Action Network
- Happy Cow (conscious eateries and stores - web and phone app)
- Permaculture Women's Guild
- ThriftCon
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Via Wikipedia "The circular economy is a model of production and consumption, which involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible. In this way, the life cycle of products is extended. In practice, it implies reducing waste to a minimum."
- Earth 911 (Articles, recycling resources including electronics waste recycling locators)
- Recycle2Riches (Explore their directory and Earth Day Summit)
- Earth Hero (Conscious products)
- Green America (Magazine and business directory)
LAS VEGAS (& N. Las Vegas) RESOURCES
COMMUNITY, EVENTS, NETWORKING, EDUCATION
- Las Vegas Clark County Seed Library (Facebook group - find events and network with likeminded people)
- Las Vegas Permaculture Facebook Group
- Las Vegas Permaculture Facebook Page
- Desert Green Las Vegas (conference on managing extremes)
- Las Vegas/ Southern Nevada Beekeepers (Facebook group)
SEEDS & GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD
INSPIRATION, SERVICES, RESOURCES
- Las Vegas Farm (Rescued animals, events, farmers market, honey, volunteer opportunities)
- Yelp's 10 Best Organic Plant Nurseries near Las Vegas
- Organic Community Garden at Nevada State University (Henderson)
- Chop Chop Landscaping
- Springs Preserve (a place to go for education and inspiration on living and gardening in the desert)
NORTH LAS VEGAS
- Garden Farms Nevada ((Empowering people and communities to grow their own food (and more!))
- Garden Farms Foundation (Nonprofit arm of Garden Farms with school programs and more!)
- Viragrow (All things soil)
- Nevada Bugs and Butterflies (organization)
NEVADA (GENERAL / STATEWIDE) RESOURCES
COMMUNITY, EVENTS, NETWORKING, EDUCATION
SEEDS & GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD
- Vegetable planting guide for south Nevada
- Full Circle Compost (All natural growing products and a free growers guide)
- Sierra Harvest (Farm and their own resource guide!)
- Edible Reno Guide for organic seed purchasing
- Farmer's Almanac planting calendar for all of Nevada
- Field Guide for collecting native seeds in Nevada
- University Nevada, Reno - Seed Swap (contact)
FARMERS MARKETS
INSPIRATION, SERVICES, RESOURCES
- Water Smart landscape rebate
- Nevada Grown (First certified organic farm in NV - direct sales, CSA program, & approved retail)
- Nevada Seed Strategy Business Plan
- Northern Nevada Beekeepers Association (Swarm Control and Rescue resource list)
- Carson City as Nevada's 1st Bee City
- Great Basin Beekeepers of Nevada
- Mason Valley Beekeepers (Club)
- Bee City USA Reno (Bee information)
- Mojave Native Bees (Article)
OTHER INSPIRING INFORMATION & WORK
WHERE TO START (FIRST STEPS)?
- (1) Start learning
- (2) Think about joining a group or effort (get involved) and
In the words and steps of Heather Jo Flores of Eco Design Hive decide you will
- (3) "Grow Something!"
It's a new way of approaching life. Know we are forever students. Didn't like school? You will grow to immensely appreciate this new lifestyle if you don't immediately fall in love with it.
P.S. >The last Saturday of every January is the U.S. National Seed Swap Day!
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