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Hiya Smitty
Good to read ya. Permaculture can be as hard or easy as you want it to be. It's more than just planting food, it's how each element within the whole system interacts with each other to benefit not only you or me but benefits the system itself to make it work better and more efficiently. Some simple examples are using space within or around a chicken coop to grow not only food for the chickens but food for you which directly benefits from the chicken "outputs" manure, body warmth, pest control (careful thought needed there though) etc ... of course the chickens could be rabbits with a worm farm underneath to use the manure and convert it to vermicompost or ducks for more reliable snail control (and slightly safer veggies), but the point is the "system" is built up with a wholistic plan that integrates any and all those different elements so that they compliment each other. The climate of a particular area can be a major factor in deciding what you can grow or what species of livestock you can keep but its not really a factor as far as the principles of PC go .... you can create your own system wherever you live ... each system uses what is available within the constraints of that climate ... it's a matter of honing the system to work best for your situation and location. *The grass is always greener section* I came from the UK to Australia thinking I could grow anything here .... not so ... the climatic differences whilst helping some things stop me from growing things I used to take for granted in the UK, here its as dry as England was wet, as hot as England was cold .. where I stayed indoors in England because of the knee deep snow ... now I stay indoors because its 40 deg C outside and the effect on any plants trying to stay alive is just as dramatic, here is crunchy dry grass where there was wet soggy or frozen grass, here is furnace hot drying Northerly winds where there was freezing 'cutting you to the bone' North winds .... its a tricky old world * end of grass is greener section* Point is ... it will never be wet enough/dry enough/sunny enough/cool enough wherever we live to do what we all want to do when we want to do it, the good news is that as far as PC is concerned it really doesn't matter ...... cos what ya got is exactly what your PC system can use, how its used depends on how you plan it and that determines how well each element works within the whole system. Not sure how many of the regulars are left on the NG, but there used to be a wealth of experience on here ...prolly still is ... the main thing to remember is we are all learning all the time ... no matter how long someone has been using PC, theres always another point of view to consider or another problem/solution that can be of interest to others. So ask away ...post away ... I'll help if I can and hopefully others will get involved too. (hope at least some of that makes sense) Pete wrote: Hi all, PC Novice here so really just getting started in this field.. This person has hit the nail on the head for me.. I found this to be the case here on the web too. Another thing I find is that there is a ton of stuff for folks living in places they can do this year around and almost zilch for a cold climate newbie permie like myself.. Not being critical, just a plea for some help and maybe a nudge from you big brothers and sisters who have been doing this for years now.. my 2 cents smitty 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. |
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