PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate): 2013 May 25-June 2

Kinstone Academy of Applied Permaculture is offering two PDCs in 2013. One in May and one in August. You can register at www.kinstonecircle.com. The course description is the same for them both with the exception of the special event to create a cob oven occurring during this May PDC. The Permaculture Design Certificate course is [...]

From a Talk in Georgia

Hear is a small portion of a lecture that I gave in Southern Georgia recently: On my way down here I was thinking a lot about the word agriculture and the word Permaculture, some of the terminology that we use as a culture, that we’ve grown up with, and how some of it is just [...]

Lawns and Perennials

The plants that persist in the landscape are the perennials. Succession belies a fabric of short-lived, seed-bearing forbs, herbs, low-lying ground cover, “weeds”, until the great quilt of woody species descends and ascends. A perennial culture by design, for sure. The end goal, the eternal return. It is what persists through the years. It is [...]

Commodity

When a product enters the marketplace it is doomed to be bandied about, prodded, poked and eventually, if it is a “valuable” commodity, confiscated, manipulated, packaged, politicized, corporatized, chained to will o the wisp market forces and forever relegated to the dungeon of the landfill, what’s left of it. The pharaohs of agri-commerce will save [...]

Bill Mollison on Gynekinetophobia and Zoophobia

“I confess to a rare problem – gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me – but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveler can confirm, a complaint best developed in the [...]

A Quote from Bill Mollison

“Each such cycle is a unique event; diet, choice, selection, season, weather, digestion, decomposition and regeneration differ each time it happens. Thus, it is the number of such cycles, great and small, that decide the potential for diversity. We should feel ourselves privileged to be part of such eternal renewal. Just by living we have [...]