Our vegetable garden was made purely with what we could find mostly for free. We gathered lots of cardboard to sheet mulch with. We then collected hazel from the hedge rows on our lane and began to weave some raised beds. We found more old fence posts and marked out our area – nice and close to the van and the shipping container. On freecycle we came across as much rotten horse poo as we needed and we mixed that with comfrey. It wasn’t long before we had our first packs of biodynamic seeds from Stormy Hall Seeds and were planting them. A gate and some chicken wire kept out the deer and rabbits and we were away…
What Bill says…
"Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture their is no possibility of a stable social order". - Bill MollisonAnother definition…
"Permaculture is the harmonious integration of all life kingdoms into agriculturally productive ecosystems and socially just environments producing sound economic outcomes through systems management. It is a regenerative design science reflecting patterns in nature that seeks to build interconnections allowing for energy efficiency and abundance of yield" treeyopermaculture.comRobert Hart was doing it…
“The only basic and comprehensive answer to the colossal harm that our present industrial system is causing to the global environment – harm that could lead to the extermination of all life on earth – is to replace it with a sustainable system – geared largely to the non-polluting, life-enhancing products of the living world” Robert A de J Hart ‘Forest Gardening’What my teacher says…
"To do the most good for the greatest number of beings for the longest time possible with the least effort" Richard Perkins-
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