good hard work of healing our relationships with each other and the Earth. Grow food in ways that work with Nature, not against her. Share that food and work and learning with your friends, family and neighbors.
Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share Resources: www.permaculture.org www.permacultureprinciples.com Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren
Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
1. Kill your lawn, Kill it dead. Take any cardboard you have lying around, or aquire and layer it all over the lawn,The key here is to plunge the grass into complete darkness and let it starve, brutal. This can take 4-8 weeks.
2. Tear it up. This will be the most work intensive part of the process, Invite some friends over and make a day of it. Whilst plunging your tool of choice into the ground and ripping up the root systems, think of ALL THE BEAUTIFUL FOOD YOU WILL aQUIRE for YOUR EFFORTS, IMAGINE the green, lush, full-finger fuck you to corporate America your front lawn will soon become. Stretch afterwards.
3. Amendments. The dirt you have to work with will more than likely be void of key nutrients since it has only been supported by one crop. It’s a good idea to test your soil to see what it is lacking, the more variety in organic matter you can add to supplement the soils needs, the better.
4. Plant some food! Plan ahead and make sure your plants will be getting their desired amount of sun/shade. Check in with your neighbors to see if there is already a surplus of something in their gardens, or a dire need. Trading crops is a great way to create abundance and diversity, as well as build community. If your neighbors are inspired by your actions, offer to help them do the same!
For more history and guidance on lawns, and converting them into gardens. Check out Food Not Lawns by H.C. Flores . aND AMERICAN GREEN BY TED STEINBECK . IF this is
something you are interested in doing, but you think you will need some help, Hit up the Eugene Avant-Gardeners FB Page , and set up a Work party!
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lots of different connections are
needed to foster an urban commons
consider RFID tags, encryption, p2p, trust networks, digital graffiti
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d find out about hackerspaces and/or
join guerrilla grafters in your area...
make an account, and then email us:[email protected]
data about grafts can be complicated; commons aren’t always legal....we share data about graftable trees at *f
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grafting... please wait
dirt and counted off the industries (and sources of pollution) you were boycotting by eating food from your garden. (They are legion, and the planet would be better off without most of them.)
I invite you to another transformative communication and waste saving method. When we pee into a jar (with a lid, that we can close!) in our own homes and carry the liquid outdoors, we are giving the by-product of out living to the biota who live in our immediate vicinity. The plants love the nitrogen of this sterile liquid, when it's diluted with fifteen or more parts water.
Anyone can contribute to the viability of the biosphere in this way. Even high-rise apartment dwellers can save the planet the cost of moving potable water up however many floors just to be flushed down again with a tiny amount of sterile fluid added. Saving a day's urine to flush once without stinking up the home is easy with a jar. It takes a small amount of effort to dispense the water-diluted urine to local plant friends for people lucky enough to have a garden. It's one environmental improvement that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to accomplish.
This planet-saving gesture is a way anyone can change to an environmentally improved lifestyle without changing the infrastructure of a house one iota, and it doesn't cost a penny. I mentioned it to a dj on the college radio station, and that person immediately began to discuss
facilitating Seeds of hope sowed by the discord of earth ship stewards resonating frequencies of change
they cast aside the husks encapsulating their new forms
Admittedly, this can make for an eccentric course but, as Diane Ackerman astutely observes, "If we needed an excuse to adopt a fascinating hobby, work on novel projects, or live outrageously, we could be claiming to be doing it for health purposes."
Like most people everywhere, we also share an ideal of community. What makes the permaculture experience somewhat unique is our rediscovery of the ancient truth that when we each move individually toward the wisdom of place, the belonging we cherish comes alive between us. Where two or more are gathered...
Put simply, we do not so much build community as we allow community to emerge out of a common attunement to local patterns and archetypal forces. These are subtle but infinitely penetrating forms. In other words, permaculture might rightly be described as "the art of friendship that is sheltered and true."
know to find the proper niches for the diversity of plants that they grow. Just as diversity of needs and potential for contribution can lead to creative solutions to social problems, a diversity of plants can be grown to address various weather or soil issues.
Monocultures can be metaphorical of monarchies and both are examples of systems not functioning optimally. Much of our modern society including the workplace and political sphere is structured hierarchically, with an emphasis on a top down chain of command to express control of the system. This maybe efficient if you want to grow a field of nothing but corn or have a boss dictating rules to a community, But it will not handle pests well, it will not utilize the potential for contribution found amongst all the creatures that compose the system. Instead let us create self managing systems where all the individual creatures are put in a place to succeed naturally by doing what they were designed to do.
Robust systems are the goal. Therefore, a permaculturist will feed what they want to grow. Industrial agriculture works on a 'kill the pest' model so when a pest emerges the response is to cover the field in chemicals. But permaculturist know that this ultimately breeds resistance, stronger pests and a weaker system. A more proper approach is to look at conflict as information that indicates the system is out of balance. Conflict can teach us how to find balance again, and how to improve upon a system. Conflict
should be minimized, but it should also be recognized as inevitable. Therefore, it is key to develop healthy approaches to managing conflict.
In conclusion, as we build intentional communities of plants and people, we should look to nature, study her patterns, and work with what she provides us. Intentional households and permaculture plots are both complex interdependent and interrelated systems, therefore, positivity and creativity will be your greatest allies in the creation of a better functioning world.
Cover Art by Muzka What is Avant Gardening? by Plaedo What is Permaculture? by Sabra Marcroft
Illustration Worm Trinity by Nick Routledge Who’s Lawn is it anyway? by Alana Jolene Gardening Against the odds by Alana Jolene FASHIONING FORBIDDEN FRUIT by Alana Jolene A Plea for Peecycling by Isabella Jib Metamorphosis by Michael Weed
Illustration Metamorphosis by Muzka Plant Profiles Lemon Balm & Nettle by Sabra Marcroft & Violet Rhiza Coloring Page Nettle by Muzka Coloring Page Lemon Balm by Muzka Recipe Nettle & Lemon Balm Pesto by Sabra Marcroft Every Resurrection is Local by Nick Routledge
Illustration Oak Trinity by Nick Routledge Illustration Surrender by Muzka Article Sustainable Relationships by Plaedo
Illustration The Earth is My Mother by Muzka Glossary Contact Back Cover Poetry by Plaedo
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