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Old 07-07-2004, 10:02 AM
len gardener
 
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Default open letter to all perma-culturists who realy care - back 2 grass roots

g'day fran,

it wasn't directed an any particular person in the group, there are so
few of us who lurk here now anyway.

but when you get involved around the 'net and try to do any research
all you get is certificates, diplomas, institutes and the call for it
to be a uni degree and a senior school curriculum. and it all spells
money and they are not promoting pc as something everyone can do to
some degree you along with pete and others i hope we can count
ourselves in as well are out there doing it and untill all that
factional garbage this group was full of help and ideas going back and
forth but now that the only thrust is from those chardinay yuppies
looking for an easy buck.

but please fran i think you and pete and others would know that i did
not aim this personaly, just as others have said and what the feed
back i get from the common man pc is rapidly turning into a here today
gone tomorrrow yuppie fad.

i love sharing ideas and experiences and as you would know am not
known for getting into personal afronts like some others live for.

i'm with fukuoka he says plant the trees/plants and the rain will
come, i believe that is our only hope to reversing what is occuring
trouble is it won't happen over night it took us 200 hundred years to
get to this stage so guess it is going to take us some of that time to
get some of the way back.

so if this form of pc that is gets out of the reach of the common man
the grass roots people then it will lose it's relevence and change
will never come or when people realise that they can't afford to buy
food then it will be too late. like i said we alone have planted 500
trees in this area on our block but it is a mere spit in the bucket to
what is ripped out of the place.

people are of the opinion if they own it then they can do what they
like with it. i think if we don't get more responsible and say ok we
are the custodians of these resources then the situation cannot
change.

so if we get a benefit from selling and our land is more attractive
due to pc principlas well so be it that to us shows others that pc is
tangible and beneficial, just imagine if everyone who bought land like
tis could see those benefits and turn them into a benefit for them
thibngs would start to change, but that is not about to happen anytime
soon.

and for discenteres just do a search under pc and see what you get
lots and lots of certificates and diplomas, none of here is how simple
pc can be so get started today. pc is a mind set not a design course.

take care

len

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