"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".
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
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE (Disaster preparedness + rebuild resources)
- De:fy Disaster for toolkits on how to prepare for various disasters
- Shareable resources for community resilience and collective disaster response
- Mutual Aid San Diego
- Sharing resources:Mutual aid groups share resources like food, clothing, and medicine.They also provide services like education and breakfast programs.
- Building solidarity:Mutual aid groups are built on the idea that people can support each other in times of need.
- Making decisions collectively:Mutual aid groups are non-hierarchical and make decisions by consensus.
- Mutual aid can help people overcome social, economic, and political barriers.
- It can help people build solidarity and community.
- It can help people take responsibility for caring for each other and changing political conditions.
PERMACULTURE IS NOT "JUST GARDENING"
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
- Community Seed Network
- Rodale Institute (75 years of regenerative and organic farming research)
- Rainwater Harvesting
- Water Stories
- Ecobricks.org (a way to manage personal waste and inspire a community)
- Garden Tower Project (online purchasing)
- Seed Savers Exchange (national seed swap)
- Organic Seed Alliance
- Seed suppliers list by Homestead and Chill
- Smart 4 Growing Bio Garden Products
- Permaculture Action Network
- Happy Cow (conscious eateries and stores - web and phone app)
- Permaculture Women's Guild
- Steve's Weave - Green Classifieds
- Environmental Working Group
- Foundation for Intentional Community
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)
ARE YOU READY for your info,
SAN DIEGO?
COMMUNITY, EVENTS, NETWORKING, EDUCATION
FARMERS MARKETS
BEES
- Girl Next Door Honey (education & events)
- San Diego Beekeeping Society
- SD Online Beekeeping Course
- San Diego Bee Rescue (removal) service
- Beekeeping Supplies by Mountain Sweet Honey
- Check out Flow Hive (a new innovative design)
INSPIRATION, SERVICES, RESOURCES
- Farms, Bee education, and Grocery 10 best for SD via Yelp
- SD Office of Sustainability and Environmental Justice
- San Diego Community Garden Network
- Tijuana River Valley Community Garden
- Master Gardener's SD Community Garden list
- Yelp's list of organic nurseries SD
- LeCase Ecovillage Pacific Beach
- Ama-gi Eco Village (Jamul)
- Permasystems SD List of Permaculture Links (a blog for all things ecological design)
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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