I am glad you were brave and forward thinking enough to commit to these principles. I trust and hope that you are continuing to educate and improve wherever life takes you. Blessings on you and all those who care and teach others to care.
Governments control most schools, so there would be a conflict of interest . Corporates keep them in office. Big business only cares about the bottom line and the well being of a very small, greedy minority.
People should reframe from using word such as slave. You maybe can fodder for the system but you are certainly not slaves. A "system" that allows you move out to other countries if they take you, or even move to a small islands. But am aware why people hate the system/government as they're traitorous. Permacutler is a nice idea for people that can do this but the majority can't.
@@fullercrane8548 Freedom is an illusion. You must obey, you must give your work and your energy for the system, you have to follow their laws and rules. If you don't follow the rules, if you don't accept exploitation then you're screwed. They own your body and they watch very carefully their property. You don't really have a choice to leave the system/government/civilization. If you leave, you'll be treated as a lawless criminal, a terrorist, a traitor. The system is aways reinforcing itself, indoctrinating people to think that its dangerous out there and that no one can survive outside of it.
1. Observe and Interact 2. Catch and Store Energy 3. Obtain a Yield 4. Apply Self-Regulation and Accept Feedback 5. Use and Value Renewable Resources & Services. 6. Produce No Waste 7. Design from Patterns to Details 8. Integrate Rather than Segregate 9. Use Small and Slow Solutions 10. Use and Value Diversity 11. Use Edges& Value the Marginal 12. Creatively Use & Respond to Change
I'm absolutely going to use these principles when I finally get my piece of heaven in Bulgaria. Gaining as much knowledge as possible so I can start implementing it from day 1 on the land.
Even before then, you can start practicing these prinbiples in your own backyard, or even in the town or city where you live, so that once you get your "piece of heaven" you have some experience. See Toby Hemenway's two phenomenal books, "Gaia's Garden" and "The Permaculture City," And best of luck with your plans and aspirations!
Im a introvert herbalist and i was imagining to make my medicinal island in the mountain top of the world and not just medicinal plants was wondering how to agriculture without $$ just nature knowledge and hardwork ..i dint knew what premaculture mean but with just being alone and wondering how to i already discovered more than this along my journey for nature,wildlife and humanity ..thanks for the video its all truth..😊
Beauty is important, also. Beauty is a motivator. I believe Bill Mollison said beauty was one of the things we need to include in our design. We need to incorporate more usefulness *with* beauty. Beauty is something often forgotten in the utility formula.
True. In the garden of Eden there was "every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food" (Genesis 2:9). Whether or not you're a believer, there is ancient wisdom in having not just utility but beauty also. Beauty is important.
I think with a permaculture approach to the human beings, we would also not waste, observe and interact, harvest the yield, in other words creativity and expression would naturally spring from community that practices these principles toward nature and toward ourselves. Art is one of those emergent unexpected gifts of nature.
I'm so happy I got into gardening. 6 fruit trees, 30 berry bushes, grapevines, 6 grapevines, 6 type of mushrooms, a bunch of medicinal herbs, making my own compost, I now have my own bees, I'm working on getting some owls to nest in my backyard, and a small pond of tilapia.
Thank you, this is twice I have watched this video. I do love things like this. It is a form of art, and you laid it out brilliantly. Thank you. I shall continue to watch the rest of your videos. P.E.A.C.E
The part I love (because it fires up the imagination and creative thinking) about #8 (Integrate rather than segregate) is that you have at least 3 elements performing/supporting each function (so if 1 fails, or even 2 fail, there's still 1 element performing that function), and at least 3 functions are performed by each element, so redundancy is built in to a design. Simple examples: Function: providing shade Elements providing shade: grape vines on a pergola, shade trees, a roof (thanks, Geoff Lawton!) Element: a pergola Functions performed by a pergola: provides shade, acts as a trellis for grape vines, gives children a play structure, serves as an outdoor seating area (that's 4 functions!)
I love Mollison's Designer's Manual. It's one of my favorite resources. Nicely done. Your trick of drawing on the screen is really cool! Wish I'd thought of that! 🙂🌱
Thank you very much for this wonderful and educational videos about permaculture. I'am from Philippines. I don't have knowledge about permaculture,and it was a good opportunity that i watch this videos. Thank you so much..
Can’t believe a permaculture vid popped up on my home feed. Landscaping vs. permascaping: changing the land to work for you vs. learning to work with the land that is. Work smarter, not harder. I see that human values and morals have been added into the concept of permascaping.
On principle #8: Integrating everything will also create higher dependence among units. This is not bad if each unit can be replaced easily, but if a lot of units are dependable this can create a chain reaction. I would say that when one integrates, one has to create redundancy as well.
Integrating does creates redundancy! The systems in ecology which source their nutrients from a single place are the least resilient - higher connectivity leads to the highest biodiversity and higher biodiversity leads to tighter nutrient cycling and resilience
As Steve says below, the "rule" that goes with this principle is that you have at least 3 elements performing/supporting each function (so if 1 fails, or even 2 fail, there's still 1 element performing that function), and at least 3 functions are performed by each element. Simple examples: Function: providing shade Elements providing shade: grape vines on a pergola, shade trees, a roof (thanks, Geoff Lawton!) Element: a pergola Functions performed by a pergola: provides shade, acts as a trellis for grape vines, gives children a play structure, serves as an outdoor seating area (that's 4 functions!) So yes, a lot of redundancy is built into the design to avoid the problem you mention.
Wow very enlightening gotta get those books hope they are witten in such a way that allows as easy understanding and practice as you have taught us. Thanks for sharing
Greetings from Arizona growing zone 9b! thank you for this information. whether we knew it or not, we have been doing this all our life, not knowing it had a name to it!
Excellent. Also important are food and shelter for wildlife. In addition consider herbs to extract essential oils. One of many that come to mind is poncirus trifoliate that makes an impenetrable thorny hedge and an oil from seeds that is similar to grapefruit seed extract.
Any videos about healthy community building and governance? Great presentation by the way! Hopefully these intentional communities and cohabitation experiments gain more popularity and have a bigger influence and voice. People over profits and not the other way around. Need to be producing strong, healthy, educated, moral/ethical, and virtuous people. Or we could always just collectively twerk our way into the future and just turn it into like a big globalized clout chase.
What does "educated" mean? What does "moral/ethical" mean? What does "virtuous" mean? We don't want to fall into dogma here. I believe it's equally important to question our values, especially when they appear "good."
I was really quite moved by this video. Being a human CAN be a beautiful thing. I often imagine what the planet would be like if we were to all utilise these principles. Thanks for posting this, and other videos. They really are design for life inspiration. Thank you
Great breakdown bro! makes it easy to learn for anyone new to permaculture. I recommend everyone to do the design course. i done it in costa rica and learnt more in 2 weeks then any education ive ever had!
Humans become the pandas ;) amazing renewable resource. Also I a have never seen a bamboo patch expand beyond a 1/4 acre here in Western Washington. They will likely never go to seed.
Yea I liked everything except the bamboo idea. Even if you put in plates around the bamboo more than half a meter deep, it will still find a way out. Speaking from experience. Bamboo does not belong anywhere except in China lol.
I just watched a gardening Australia couple who have been permaculture people for many years and still use social security, still need fuel each week, and still need 30% input through out their entire year... and yet they were being hailed as doing Extremely well.... and then I see an american capitalist employing 7 workers and earning $350k on his 1.3acres... F.... me permaculture is a big socialist wank!!! Not even chinese use these techniques... and those that do are removed and skyscrapers or aquaponics soon put in their old farm..
@@lesliegrayson1722 So your entire Argument against permaculture is that it doesn't produce money? Permaculture can produce high amounts of food and is essential to stop soil depletion.
@@thorsten8790 SOIL depletion LOL what a crock of Shit.... when a plant feeds it will take away what it wants... when it rains this happens too so f22king what... the sun is getting larger every day, the last life on earth will die at 4000 degrees c so you work it out how soon the first plant starts to die coz when that happens in 500-1000 years all life will be about to die real soon... and ur worrying about some stupid bit of soil being displaced LOL ur funny man everyone is talking about going into space and Socialist idiots are still talking about how they can save earth LOL MORONS its like living on another planet with socialists... they are like aliens!!!!
@@thorsten8790 Scientific research has already proven that permaculture cannot provide enough food for the entire world. The yield is too low and it takes up too much space.
Love it Iam trying to talk some friends of mine into doing things like this . I would even be willing to help or do it for them .. we all need to start doing this for the world we live in
The key point here is to reduce consumption, which is counter to free-market capitalistic consumerism. We have established that communism and in extension socialism is bad and brought down an empire (although it was the mismanagement of the system rather than the system itself), how are we going to furhter this idea?
Where I live, almost all these points are literally illegal. For example no constructed ponds, no grey or black water usage, maximum plant height... I want to move as soon as I can figure out how to afford it.
Decision makers, for the most part, are ignorant. In my city they cut down all the diverse native trees and plant, more or less a monoculture of nursery trees. They fail to plan for parks and green areas because there are no taxes coming from parks. I could go on and on about decision makers and their narrow minds.
@@judithvijfentwintig9760 Right? Did you know it's actually illegal to harvest rainwater in some states? But then again, the Dutch with their "Tile-tax" is doing a big sprint to keep up with the muricans in that regard at least.
That's pretty wonderful. I'd love if something like that would happen where I live. I'm just curious if this scenario implies, that all what's shown in this picture is the property of the anticipated people who are living there. Because here in Germany you can't just grow things besides the street. You aren't even allowed to do what you want on your own property. There are so many regulations... :-(
Understand the plants you choose before adding them to your system. If it's not a native part of your local ecosystem, search carefully to make sure it is not invasive when let into the landscape. Bamboo for example can be quite aggressive and hard to get rid of. Choose growing elements first that are existent in your local area.
I’m a student studying botany and have been planning on transferring to UCSC, but now seeing Oregon state having courses that cover principles of permaculture, I’m interested, please tell me what program at Oregon state covers this?
I think, that this, should be what education becomes, because education right now, serves only financial interests, and specifically not environmental interests.
