I appreciate this easy-to-understand breakdown of the permaculture system. In the same sense that science is not robots but is a way of examining information to arrive at greater truth, permaculture is not gardening but is a way of working with circumstances and resources to arrive at greater efficiency. I don't have a garden (I live in a small, dark apartment) but I can apply the principles of permaculture to help me examine my own life to find areas of potential growth and greater efficiency, health, and growth.
absolutely brilliant!!! This is a wider view of how I would choose to think and live. I am sorry I couldn't get off work to hear him at Pierce Cedar Creek. They have tried so hard to get people interested in permaculture and it makes so much sense!
So many videos about permaculture today treat these principles like a big secret you need to sign up for an expensive course to learn. Thank you for sharing this clearly and up-front so we can work with it in all our different circumstances.
Very informative ive started taking a permaculture class this past weekend here in North Texas. Very excited about all this information and resource available to us. Thanks for your effort in posting vidoes like this to get the word and information around. Thank you for being a co-creator :) 13Love
Amazing teacher. Permaculture is such an endless subject, all i'm doing is perma-everything in my life and loving it. I'm so content, knowing i can provide for myself more and more. I'm finding new and better ways of doing things every day. I have never had so much genuine fun and purpose in my life. I disagree with Bill Mollison on one thing. This should be taught in every single school on the planet. Elementary, because kids are more interested and much more able to understand this than we give them credit for. Maybe hold the actual design part for later in school. Kind of like math. I think the only reason why kids reject schooling and don't do well is because it's forcefed garbage that has no link to the actual real world. School is just a holding pen to dumb down, stagnate and fetter eager, innovative minds. They intuitively know this and i knew it too. Permaculture does not contain any elements kids could not immediately grasp. Humanity would be better off instead of keeping this knowledge only to the ones wanting to know about it. It could and should be growing much faster and this needs to be common knowledge, everywhere. For crying out loud, get it out there. I'm 40 and i didn't hear about this until 2-3 years ago and i'm just about the most avid gardener you'll meet. I have wasted decades doing the wrong things. Permaculture has been around... what? almost 40 years? The continuous preaching to the choir has to turn into something more effective and productive, in other words, touch more lives. Permaculture the permaculture itself too! It's insulated and compartmentalised as far as i can see. It needs to be everywhere, everyone and everything.... Yesterday. Think about your roll in this transformation, i'm thinking about mine. Lots of love to the community, from Holland.
I never heard Bill mention that he does not want it schools. He said that he did not want Universities to twist it into a bullshit degree while taking all your money. He did not want them to take ownership in it. Bill worked in Universities for years and knew all the information theft that went on. Governments wont support it in schools, because according to them, there is no problem with the climate etc. Its the enemy (corporate money grubbing clowns) that keep them in office. Thats why its a personal movement, and why Bill was correct in wanting to keep the lying polical puppets out of it. Permaculture has slowly continued to gain momentum from its inception in 1978. The Malasian government has just approved a 300acre Permaculture learning centre to be built, fully funded by them, and their crown prince wants it accepted as the new way of living.
👏🙏 amazing content and awareness of natural process and how to us them to our advantage while living in harmony with nature.. specially liked the regenerative modelling concept.. lot of gratitude and love from India sir. You are doing a great service to our planets well being unlike most of us.
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Nice speak... About principle 9 "Using small and slow solutions": I would to add that's not just about making little steps.You have to choose simple, sustainable and low tech solutions which are easy to maintain by yourself... Always prefer passive to mecanic, mecanic to electronic, etc. Like a gravity irrigation system (with a Ram-pump) instead of a dripping irrigation system (with an electric pump). Thanks for sharing.
After 2 years of owning property and attempting this circle, I realize no one tells you how much time and effort from the humans it takes to keep it thriving. It's a full time job to keep it correct, in the beginning otherwise nature takes over. Here's an example. It takes like 20 species to find 3 that thrive in my system, therefore there is tons of time when soil is bare, or dried out, or destroyed. A closed system doesn't happen without observing and failure. And the observation and failure portion of this system is much much longer than anyone makes it seem. And that physical effort is insanely tiring!
Permaculture is a great thing, but the achilles heel is constant disregard for local ecology by planting invasive plants and the future of your farming efforts. If you look at the principles and ask yourself if it is a good thing to disregard the experiences of others with invasives and plant them anyway, you might find that knowing the potential permanent changes you can make to your (and your neighbors, and your community's) land and refraining from the supposed instant gratification from fast growing aggressive plants will benefit you and your kids directly. Your land is your biggest investment and most valuable asset. The plants on it will directly impact it resale value, and how hard you will have to work. Carefully research the pros and cons of every plant you introduce. Many invasive plants are there forever after as little as a year, and you will not have the "easy" farming promoted by permaculture, but a helluva lot of work to do to remove mistakes made through neglecting a little study. Learn the plant's scientific name, plug this into Google with the words "native to", and this will give you good information about what conditions the plant will grow well in, then put the name in again, with the word "invasive" and the region where you live. Then do the same things with other regions of similar climates, because introducing an invasive plant that is not already in your community is like introducing a disease. Do this BEFORE you plant! Getting back to the land is a great thing, but remember that if you tear up an area of native plants, it will be at least 100 years (if ever) for it to restore itself. Focus on rejuvenating areas that have been previously disturbed first, as permaculture is great on rebuilding soil structure. Many invasives also come in from potted plants and landscape materials, such as fill, compost, manure, etc. We bare-root our potted plants and actually burn the soil, having had several bad weeds come from nursery stock. Try to keep a closed system (nothing in or out) if possible, and inspect carefully any landscape materials at their source before having it delivered. Also, machinery is a good way to spread invasive plants around. Try to take this advice as well-intentioned. I am only trying to save you (and your ecology) from future headaches. Know thy plant...happy forays into the world that supports us. Realizing the need to keep at least 50% intact local ecology systems will support us world-wide (and has done so for millenia). We know too little about how those support the planet to casually destroy them.
Also, coming from the ecology side, fire is an integral part of most of North America's human-inhabited ecosystems. So, for responsible management sake, fire breaks should be installed anyways. Unless you plan on using the entire property for human goods production...but that just doesn't seem responsible to me.
Great comment. E.O. Wilson and Douglas Tallamy make the most convincing arguments for keeping 50% of one's property in as natural a state as possible. If you don't have native ground, consider restoring 50%, although that is a formidable task that makes you quickly realize how very difficult it is to "put it back" once we destroy it with poor plant choices, and inadvertent introduction of invasive species as described in my other comment above.
Oh yeah, I've been doing habitat restoration out at my parents' house, and it's some real work. BUT, a little bit does go a long way, as far as the fauna is concerned. They're so happy to have just a little bit of native cover and food. Especially considering the status of the surrounding areas. It's turning into a bit of an oasis here.haha
So often I see people discuss "self-sufficiency" in the sense of "I'm gonna grow all my own food, and make a living selling the products of my land". It is a very isolationist mindset. What I'm getting hints of here are the ideas that we need and benefit from growing healthy communities, not just trying to isolate and look out for ourselves. I'd like to see more communities designed with ways to support residents as a group. Things like planting public fruit trees, or having community kitchens, or integrating and enabling individuals to own and operate small businesses from their homes or from a cart or something. When things get too suburbified and segregated, people are forced into a "middle-class" pigeonhole that may not fit everyone, and isn't as resilient a structure for society as a whole. That's why folks end up feeling isolated and hopeless, some end up homeless, some end up disabled and unable to hold a job just because they can't do a standard traditional job like they used to. A bit more flexibility would enable so much more productivity from people on the edges, so they can contribute and be a valuable member of the whole rather than seen as just a drain of resources.
I appreciate this easy-to-understand breakdown of the permaculture system. In the same sense that science is not robots but is a way of examining information to arrive at greater truth, permaculture is not gardening but is a way of working with circumstances and resources to arrive at greater efficiency.
I don't have a garden (I live in a small, dark apartment) but I can apply the principles of permaculture to help me examine my own life to find areas of potential growth and greater efficiency, health, and growth.
absolutely brilliant!!! This is a wider view of how I would choose to think and live. I am sorry I couldn't get off work to hear him at Pierce Cedar Creek. They have tried so hard to get people interested in permaculture and it makes so much sense!
So many videos about permaculture today treat these principles like a big secret you need to sign up for an expensive course to learn. Thank you for sharing this clearly and up-front so we can work with it in all our different circumstances.
This is indeed a great quick summary by Peter!
Very informative ive started taking a permaculture class this past weekend here in North Texas. Very excited about all this information and resource available to us. Thanks for your effort in posting vidoes like this to get the word and information around. Thank you for being a co-creator :) 13Love
Very influencing delivery and sincere effort that could be noticed ,by a keen enthusiast.
Amazing teacher. Permaculture is such an endless subject, all i'm doing is perma-everything in my life and loving it. I'm so content, knowing i can provide for myself more and more. I'm finding new and better ways of doing things every day. I have never had so much genuine fun and purpose in my life. I disagree with Bill Mollison on one thing. This should be taught in every single school on the planet. Elementary, because kids are more interested and much more able to understand this than we give them credit for. Maybe hold the actual design part for later in school. Kind of like math. I think the only reason why kids reject schooling and don't do well is because it's forcefed garbage that has no link to the actual real world. School is just a holding pen to dumb down, stagnate and fetter eager, innovative minds. They intuitively know this and i knew it too.
Permaculture does not contain any elements kids could not immediately grasp. Humanity would be better off instead of keeping this knowledge only to the ones wanting to know about it. It could and should be growing much faster and this needs to be common knowledge, everywhere. For crying out loud, get it out there. I'm 40 and i didn't hear about this until 2-3 years ago and i'm just about the most avid gardener you'll meet. I have wasted decades doing the wrong things. Permaculture has been around... what? almost 40 years? The continuous preaching to the choir has to turn into something more effective and productive, in other words, touch more lives. Permaculture the permaculture itself too! It's insulated and compartmentalised as far as i can see. It needs to be everywhere, everyone and everything.... Yesterday.
Think about your roll in this transformation, i'm thinking about mine.
Lots of love to the community, from Holland.
I never heard Bill mention that he does not want it schools. He said that he did not want Universities to twist it into a bullshit degree while taking all your money. He did not want them to take ownership in it. Bill worked in Universities for years and knew all the information theft that went on. Governments wont support it in schools, because according to them, there is no problem with the climate etc. Its the enemy (corporate money grubbing clowns) that keep them in office. Thats why its a personal movement, and why Bill was correct in wanting to keep the lying polical puppets out of it. Permaculture has slowly continued to gain momentum from its inception in 1978. The Malasian government has just approved a 300acre Permaculture learning centre to be built, fully funded by them, and their crown prince wants it accepted as the new way of living.
👏🙏 amazing content and awareness of natural process and how to us them to our advantage while living in harmony with nature.. specially liked the regenerative modelling concept.. lot of gratitude and love from India sir. You are doing a great service to our planets well being unlike most of us.
Nice speak...
About principle 9 "Using small and slow solutions":
I would to add that's not just about making little steps.You have to choose simple, sustainable and low tech solutions which are easy to maintain by yourself... Always prefer passive to mecanic, mecanic to electronic, etc. Like a gravity irrigation system (with a Ram-pump) instead of a dripping irrigation system (with an electric pump).
Thanks for sharing.
After 2 years of owning property and attempting this circle, I realize no one tells you how much time and effort from the humans it takes to keep it thriving. It's a full time job to keep it correct, in the beginning otherwise nature takes over.
Here's an example. It takes like 20 species to find 3 that thrive in my system, therefore there is tons of time when soil is bare, or dried out, or destroyed.
A closed system doesn't happen without observing and failure. And the observation and failure portion of this system is much much longer than anyone makes it seem. And that physical effort is insanely tiring!
Peter Bane, is a Fantastic visual speaker. Wow..There are so many micro-biosystems I didn't even know existed...lol
Permaculture is a great thing, but the achilles heel is constant disregard for local ecology by planting invasive plants and the future of your farming efforts. If you look at the principles and ask yourself if it is a good thing to disregard the experiences of others with invasives and plant them anyway, you might find that knowing the potential permanent changes you can make to your (and your neighbors, and your community's) land and refraining from the supposed instant gratification from fast growing aggressive plants will benefit you and your kids directly. Your land is your biggest investment and most valuable asset. The plants on it will directly impact it resale value, and how hard you will have to work. Carefully research the pros and cons of every plant you introduce. Many invasive plants are there forever after as little as a year, and you will not have the "easy" farming promoted by permaculture, but a helluva lot of work to do to remove mistakes made through neglecting a little study. Learn the plant's scientific name, plug this into Google with the words "native to", and this will give you good information about what conditions the plant will grow well in, then put the name in again, with the word "invasive" and the region where you live. Then do the same things with other regions of similar climates, because introducing an invasive plant that is not already in your community is like introducing a disease. Do this BEFORE you plant! Getting back to the land is a great thing, but remember that if you tear up an area of native plants, it will be at least 100 years (if ever) for it to restore itself. Focus on rejuvenating areas that have been previously disturbed first, as permaculture is great on rebuilding soil structure. Many invasives also come in from potted plants and landscape materials, such as fill, compost, manure, etc. We bare-root our potted plants and actually burn the soil, having had several bad weeds come from nursery stock. Try to keep a closed system (nothing in or out) if possible, and inspect carefully any landscape materials at their source before having it delivered. Also, machinery is a good way to spread invasive plants around. Try to take this advice as well-intentioned. I am only trying to save you (and your ecology) from future headaches. Know thy plant...happy forays into the world that supports us. Realizing the need to keep at least 50% intact local ecology systems will support us world-wide (and has done so for millenia). We know too little about how those support the planet to casually destroy them.
Permaculture is NOt about principles but " Directives" - Bill Mollison
I think he's saying that their means of disseminating knowledge were slower and less reliable.
Also, coming from the ecology side, fire is an integral part of most of North America's human-inhabited ecosystems. So, for responsible management sake, fire breaks should be installed anyways. Unless you plan on using the entire property for human goods production...but that just doesn't seem responsible to me.
Great comment. E.O. Wilson and Douglas Tallamy make the most convincing arguments for keeping 50% of one's property in as natural a state as possible. If you don't have native ground, consider restoring 50%, although that is a formidable task that makes you quickly realize how very difficult it is to "put it back" once we destroy it with poor plant choices, and inadvertent introduction of invasive species as described in my other comment above.
Oh yeah, I've been doing habitat restoration out at my parents' house, and it's some real work. BUT, a little bit does go a long way, as far as the fauna is concerned. They're so happy to have just a little bit of native cover and food. Especially considering the status of the surrounding areas. It's turning into a bit of an oasis here.haha
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So often I see people discuss "self-sufficiency" in the sense of "I'm gonna grow all my own food, and make a living selling the products of my land". It is a very isolationist mindset. What I'm getting hints of here are the ideas that we need and benefit from growing healthy communities, not just trying to isolate and look out for ourselves. I'd like to see more communities designed with ways to support residents as a group. Things like planting public fruit trees, or having community kitchens, or integrating and enabling individuals to own and operate small businesses from their homes or from a cart or something. When things get too suburbified and segregated, people are forced into a "middle-class" pigeonhole that may not fit everyone, and isn't as resilient a structure for society as a whole. That's why folks end up feeling isolated and hopeless, some end up homeless, some end up disabled and unable to hold a job just because they can't do a standard traditional job like they used to. A bit more flexibility would enable so much more productivity from people on the edges, so they can contribute and be a valuable member of the whole rather than seen as just a drain of resources.
Heather Jo Flores also talks about this in her free permaculture class.
@@gargabouf133 Thank you! I will look her up right away!
"Genetic drift" in a sector analysis? Seems like a misappropriation of the term.
Build our houses towards the sun, and get your energy for free. We must reclaim this basic knowledge.
Quoting mao wtf. What did hitler and stalin have to say about farming. Jesus.
Peter Bane is not insinuating that 'illiterate people' of the past were somehow less intelligent, is he?
Blah blah blah dude you talk way too "wheel of permaculture".... Lets fo plant something already.