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What is permaculture? "Permaculture is an approach to land management and philosophy that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using whole systems thinking. It uses these principles in fields such as regenerative agriculture, rewilding, and community resilience. Permaculture originally came from "permanent agriculture",[1] but was later adjusted to mean "permanent culture", incorporating social aspects as inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka's natural farming. The term was coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in 1978, who formulated the concept in opposition to Western industrialized methods and in congruence with Indigenous or traditional knowledge.[2][3][4] Permaculture has many branches including ecological design, ecological engineering, regenerative design, environmental design, and construction. It also includes integrated water resources management that develops sustainable architecture, and regenerative and self-maintained habitat and agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems.[5][6] Permaculture has been implemented and gained widespread visibility throughout the world as an agricultural and architectural design system and as a guiding life principle or philosophy. Much of its success has been attributed to the role of Indigenous knowledge and traditions, in which the practice itself is rooted.[2][7][8] In turn, the rise of permaculture has revalidated Indigenous knowledge in circles where it was previously devalued." (Wikipedia) |
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some current projects:
Ailanthus design process
West Philly LCA's (Life Center Association co-operative houses in trust) asked me to design them a food and medicine garden
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Operation Sweet Waters
A very ambitious collaborative project that seeks to myco-filtrate the waterways of Philadelphia. Care to fund? I have the mycologists all lined up!
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Operation Trident
A collaborative, 3-pronged approach to mites in the beehive
1-Medicinal serum- Start dispensing in May and beyond 2-Stropharia bed- Are bees foraging in the bed? Collect anecdotally 3-Metarhizium anisopliae spray; Inspiration study- Research questions:
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