The Permaculture Project LLC » Functional Relationship http://www.permacultureproject.com Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:56:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Functional Relationship and Disturbance (Succession) http://www.permacultureproject.com/functional-relationship-and-disturbance-succession/ http://www.permacultureproject.com/functional-relationship-and-disturbance-succession/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:28:31 +0000 wayne http://www.permacultureproject.com/?p=5273

Life becomes death and vise versa through disturbance. The cycle persists, but within the cycle it is disturbance that turns the wheel. Relationship functions within the wheel. It is the play of the universe. Sometimes we win, sometimes lose. Win and lose disturb one another. Cows on pasture disturb the weeds. Manure ground down by hoof and weight. Microorganisms eat. Plants spring to life to be eaten, go to seed, die, to feed again, and new life springs up. The wheel turns. We are the wheel and the wheel turns us. We live and die and are eaten and life goes on endlessly. And so does death. We fight our mortality. Why? Does it all go away? To where? Flesh becomes new flesh, plant, plant, plant, flesh. Permaculture is a wheel of relationship, a wheel of non-linear succession. How do we design for disturbance? This is key. How do we design for life anew? Nothing is permanent but the great wheel. We never step in the same Pc wheel twice. Or do we? Does lightning strike in the same place? In affect, the whole world is chaos. Try putting all of this together and there is no fit. There is only the Glue that holds.

]]> http://www.permacultureproject.com/functional-relationship-and-disturbance-succession//feed 1 Halima Learns How to Ride a Multifunctional Animal http://www.permacultureproject.com/halima-learns-how-to-ride-a-multifunctional-animal/ http://www.permacultureproject.com/halima-learns-how-to-ride-a-multifunctional-animal/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:56:09 +0000 wayne http://www.permacultureproject.com/?p=1863 How could a Daddy resist posting these pictures of his daughter? The horse, the rider, the photographer in functional relationship, a la Permaculture.

]]> http://www.permacultureproject.com/halima-learns-how-to-ride-a-multifunctional-animal//feed 1 Permaculture and Julia Child http://www.permacultureproject.com/permaculture-and-julia-child/ http://www.permacultureproject.com/permaculture-and-julia-child/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:39:23 +0000 wayne http://wweiseman.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/permaculture-and-julia-child/ I just finished watching the movie “Julie and Julia”, of all things. A brilliant study of what it takes to persist in love for something so meaningful. And we, as Permaculture practitioners, are cooks of a sort. We take the ingredients of the landscape and mix them together in increments, always seeking the perfect balance. Sometimes we burn the sauce, or add too much salt. And sometimes we get it right. Just as the cook has the opportunity to shut the stove off and remix, and then, turn the stove on again, we work the design for a site over and over again until the ingredients merge in the most balanced fashion. The natural world is very forgiving as long as we enter it with care. Plants will persist amidst even the harshest of conditions. They will produce food for us, and medicines, and fiber, and all kinds of valuable products so that we may exist, and the animals may exist. We must taste the soup over and over, again and again. Is it a bit more compost, water, a mineral here or there? Is it a little more spice, vinegar, a pinch of salt here or there? Are not all of these ingredients in functional relationship? Is all of this not the design? A recipe? A plan?

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