PDC LESSON 2.20 DESIGN - PERMACULTURE IS A PHILOSOPHY

  

PERMACULTURE COURSE AGRO-ECONOMY

PDC LESSON 2.20 DESIGN - PERMACULTURE IS A PHILOSOPHY  

Important Philosophy is working with nature rather than against it. Primarily we need to get our house and garden, our place of living, in order, so that it can support us. If we do not get our cities, homes, and gardens in order so they feed and shelter us, we must lay waste to all other natural systems. Thus, truly responsible conservationists will have gardens that support their food needs. 

With our gardens we can live in harmony with the natural world around us. Permaculture as a design system contains nothing new. It merely arranges that what was always there, in a different way, so that it works to conserve energy or to create more energy than it consumes.

EVERY DAY THERE ARE MORE REASONS WHY WE SHOULD GROW AT LEAST SOME OF OUR OWN FOOD IN OUR OWN BACK YARD.

The world we live in today has probably never offered us so much in the way of variety of food choices. Food is also relatively cheap and abundant.

 Why bother to grow your own food?

Food that is generally available to us in the shops is not of the same nutritional quality as it was a generation or two ago. And somehow the taste isn’t quite there either. Since the so-called green revolution that began in the fifties, chemical usage in farming has seen a decline in soil health and fertility.

Soils that are constantly farmed this way become depleted of its minerals. Superphosphate, which is constantly used on our phosphorous and calcium poor soils, has acidified the soil and kills the soil life. Farming the chemical way is working against nature and not with it. Did man ever overcome nature? Can man ever control the natural laws that he lives under?

Whenever man thinks he has found the answer to overcoming the natural odds, he will find it backfires on him. The irradiation and genetically modifying of the food we eat are two of man’s clever strategies to beat the natural odds. Keeping food ‘fresher’ for longer and to make it grow just how you want- aren’t we clever?

The only way we can hope to experience good health and vitality is to live as close to the natural laws as is possible. That means eating natural food grown in healthy soils. With our own physical labour and some smart planning we can truly have a lifestyle that gives us much satisfaction.

Text from the roots, Elisabeth Ferkonia (Aus.) PDC studied with Bill Mollison,  




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