Would it be worth rationalising permaculture principles? At the moment they are quotations from foundational gurus rather than a tested and agreed...
This is a good questions. PC practitioners, please quantify! At least yields. Cheers, Rowan
How did you go? Did you manage to find anything? Cheers, Rowan
Hi StarrB, how did you go with that? I've tried to find data on permaculture yields and would be very interested in what you found. I would expect...
Maybe a good time to revive this question? I'm a skeptical permaculturalist, so the religious elements are those which I have least affinity for.
Hi, I did a PDC in 1990 (2nd generation, ie taught by people taught by Bill Mollison, and partly at his place). I've since gone into research,...
Hi, what do people think of TZM and their RBE in particular, and what's the difference between that and permaculture? How it seems to me is the...
Yes, well I had planned to use the World3 model which might have been able to account for the things you mention somewhat. But Dennis Meadows, one...
Hi DC Yes, I had a meeting with a prof yesterday about how I might model this using APSIM, and we did talk about soils and APSIM can't do soil...
Hi, I realised that I don't think I've introduced myself. I did a PDC with Jude and Michel from Seedsavers in 1990. They learnt from Bill...
Hi dyllos We decided the place near Toowoomba wasn't suitable. The location was difficult and it was very dry. It would be hard to grow anything...
For fun I thought I'd see what words Google associates with Permaculture. This is the number of hits I got for 'permaculture' plus the word:...
I think it could in principle be offered online, but would require very motivated students to make it work well. I doubt it would be anything like...
What a lovely example of the Dervaes family, Bill. And I think it illustrates why different people think about what PC can do really differently....
Ok, I have just read this: A critique of permaculture which pretty much agrees with what I would expect about permaculture yields (though no...
Hi songbird (nice name!) Yes, you're probably right that I don't have enough time. I thought if there were already a system in place we could...
Hi floot, yes, I did a PDC in 1990, though I've never practised because I went into NRM research. I'm inclined to agree with you about peak...
This sounds like a great opportunity... https://www.balkep.org/the-polyculture-study.html The Polyculture Study - March 20th - September 30th...
Hi Dyllos I can tell you how the process worked for the medical course. The students were in groups of 8 with a facilitator and met 3 times...
Might there be PC projects out there who would take part in an experiment to test the contribution PC can make to global food security? I'm...
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