{"id":117,"date":"2016-02-04T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/?p=117"},"modified":"2016-02-04T09:38:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:38:13","slug":"what-is-permaculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/what-is-permaculture\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Permaculture?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, first, I am not<\/em> an expert.\u00a0 I’m not even well versed.\u00a0 But I’m learning daily and there are many experts out there with degrees and\/or years of experience that you can learn from.\u00a0 My favorite permaculture expert is Geoff Lawton<\/a> and his videos are invaluable.\u00a0 The first one I ever watched was where he created an incredibly green and lush space in the middle of a desert that held nothing but lifeless, barren ground.\u00a0 Do yourself a favor and watch his videos.\u00a0 They will change your life.<\/p>\n

For another great video go to www.backtoedenfilm.com<\/a> and watch Paul Gautschi explain how he created beautifully productive spaces on bare rock and poor soil simply by observing how forests evolve.\u00a0 And my favorite reading material on the subject is a book called Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway.<\/p>\n

So, I’m in excellent company even if I am a “newbie” at this.\u00a0 Permaculture is about designing systems that are built upon the relationships between the structures, the flora and fauna and the people on the land.\u00a0 In short, it means building a sustainable community, whether that community consists of one person on a tenth of an acre to a parcel of many acres with multiple dwellings where everything and everyone lives and grows in harmony with nature.<\/p>\n

What would be more appealing – walking through several acres of nothing but neatly cropped grass or walking through the same acreage where bees buzzed among beautiful flowering plants?\u00a0 Where herbs and fruit trees produced tasty edibles and where birds flitted from one heavily fruited bush to the next?\u00a0 Would you be more captivated by a path that meandered around charming curves to reveal endless surprises of color, texture and sound or would you be more enchanted by marching down a long concrete sidewalk?<\/p>\n

I hope to be able (eventually) to walk out my back door and stroll through an interrelated system where fruit and nut trees shade and protect delicate herbs; where vegetable plots incorporate flowers that not only look pretty but provide medicinal value.\u00a0 Where chickens peck the ground at my feet and help to control unwanted pests while providing eggs to eat.\u00a0 Where bees work to pollinate all the fruits and veggies while I wait to harvest some of the bounty they provide.\u00a0 Where a comfy log bench beckons me to sit in dappled shade and rest a spell.\u00a0 In short, I want this little half acre to show me how it must have been in that very first Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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