Permaculture Ethics

COMMENTARY

• Don shares his journey of acquiring a property with optimal sun alignment enhancing his ability to cultivate a productive garden
• Permaculture principles established by Bill Mollison, permaculture founder from Tasmania, Australia
• Ethics Discussed
  • 1) Care for the earth: Enhancing soil and plant health to ensure sustainability
  • 2) Care for the people: Fostering community, cooperation, and harmonious living

RESOURCES

• Upcomming Permaculture Courses To Learn Sustainable Farming

Permaculture Ethic & Principals

COMMENTARY

• Don & Greg have a different view on Ethic #3
  • Don’s ‘Care For The Future’ stresses stewartship and long term land health
  • Greg’s ‘Share The Surplus’ promotes sharing abundance from garden yields
• Permaculture Principals
  • Observation of the space is the core principal
  • Stacking functions
  • Work with nature not against it
  • Turning problems into solutions
  • The “net effect” creating interconnected systems where every element supports others
• Planting open-pollinated seeds that self-sow and regenerate gardens naturally year after year

Stacking Functioning Chickens

COMMENTARY

• Romey talks about redirecting rainwater as a stacking function and observe and react principal
• Chickens In Permaculture
  • Industrial chickens are just eggs and meat
  • Permaculture chickens work with nature
    • Weed control working the soil
    • Natural diet of pests and worms for pest control
    • Fertilization by poop
    • Eggs produce richer orange yolks

RESOURCES

• Upcomming Permaculture Courses To Learn Sustainable Farming