create a permaculture garden

We can go for a time without money but we wouldn’t make the afternoon without food. With the creative economy it seems wise to relearn how to become as self sufficient as we can and build a reality that requires little or less actual currency. Money is after all paper with green ink. Where is the logic in that.

Would love to follow Masanobu Fukuoka’s Natural Gardening, which pretty much is sprinkling seed balls and letting nature take its course, but I will have to wait till I am out of college or somthing because in college I probably can’t have any land and now my mom would kill me if I did that.

But I am planning on starting a natural garden.

I finished building a compost today!

As Spring approaches, and I’m preparing my backyard garden, I want to incorporate more permaculture design principles to eliminate waste, but also to have less work to do in the long run!

Ok – we have 2.5 acres to work with and I see the progression as:

1. Education (how, why, when, who, what)
2. Create Zone 1 – the vegie garden
3. Create Zone 2 – the wetlands and chook pen
4. Create Zone 3 – fruit and nut trees

At least thats the starting plan!

so i’ve ordered a bunch of plants, made a design with me mum, and once they are delivered in March, I’ll come home and plant them and then, boom – permaculture forest garden on the south side of my parent’s house, :1

There’s alot of myths and worldviews that say that humans are made of mud… one of them is this idea called “evolution” that says that all life as we know it emerged out of the earth. It’s a pretty fancy idea, life having its source in the earth; but an idea is just something between your ears. Experience… now that’s something else. I have never had such a life-affirming, transforming experience as cultivating a permaculture garden… to have the opportunity to participate in the processes that sustain life as we know it on such a basic level is truly a blessing. Sharing that experience with others, even more so. If you have any curiosity whatsoever about permaculture, PLEASE contact me; I want as many people as possible to share this amazing experience!

besides experience with specifics, i think i am comfortable and confident enough to plant out one of my own designs, :1

pretty exciting – i can’t wait to start on something akin to my ‘own’ property, heh

i’m doing a work-trade position at EcoVersity, and it’s pretty exciting

i have mostly annuals to work with, which is sorta disappointing, but there are a few peach, apple, pear, and apricot trees – hopefully i’ll be able to design in/plant more

click on the picture!