Permaculture

MAY DAY 2008 IN MINNEAPOLIS

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May Day, the Spring festival and ritual of blooming after a long Minnesota winter, is upn us. Understory is proud to have a presence, with director Reed Aubin as staff artist at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, creators of the parade and ceremony. For more information, see the web page.

Ethical Design Methodology Merging Science and Traditional Approaches

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Permaculture is an ethical design system for creating sustainable human settlements. In this section we have compiled a few resources on the subject, organized by region, by print material, by general web links, and more.

PERMACULTURA EN ESPAÑOL

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Authoritative Texts & Translations: Well-grounded Spanish to Talk About Permaculture & Agroforestry

  • http://attra.ncat.org/espanol/agroforesteria.html
  • http://www.tierramor.org/permacultura/permacultura.htm

Perfection

Posted November 14th, 2007 by Reed Ellis Aubin
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You may have heard this from Masanobu Fukuoka, the visionary Japanese farmer:

"The purpose of agriculture is not the production of food, but the perfection of human beings"

The trajectory of many martial arts and meditative traditions culminates in a settled, food-producing country life. The lifelong study of balance in physical and mental action can be seen as also a training ground for providing for one's needs in old age, sans Medicare, nursing homes, or intact family structures.

A SUCCESSFUL MIDWEST PDC 2007

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Permaculture Design Course at Mark & Jen Shepard’s New Forest Farm in Viola, Wisconsin.

Reed Aubin of Understory was a guest lecturer at the course. He spoke on biofuels, farm-scale energy, as well as Latin American Permaculture perspectives.

The course, taught by Mark with Wayne Weisman of Dayempur Farm in So. Illinois, packed the Permaculture Design Course curriculum into 7 14-hour days. As of Day 1, students had setting pace in true yeoman fashion with 5:30 A.M. starts.

Pacific Northwest Permaculture

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Pacific Northwest Permaculture Resources

Bullock's Farm and Permaculture Portal - The rural option

Seattle Tilth - The urbane approach

Upper Midwest/Cold Climate

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Upper Midwest Permaculture - Local Resources

Permaculture Collaborative is the Twin Cities' Permaculture organization, and are in the process of launching the Permaculture Research - Cold Climate

Design Notes

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Resources to answer some specific questions 

The MULCH Community Garden community of Macalester College came out en force for the Permaculture Workshop at their new site on Sunday, April 29. A few questions emerged from the sharp participants about:

 

Books and Print Material about Permaculture

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If you want to buff up on permaculture theory without staring at a screen, perhaps even while enjoying bucolic surroundings, try these for starters:

Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison

Permaculture on the Web

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Some resources which will be useful in your study of permaculture design:

Philosophical and Theoretical Background

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