As part of our Permaculture Design Course, we watched Bill Mollison's "In Grave Danger of Falling Food". Here are some of the key points we took from the film (which you can watch for free on YouTube!) Permaculture aesthetics - Tidiness is maintained disorder - the garden does not have to be neat and clean. Nature wants abundance, not to only be aesthetically pleasing.
Resiliency and redundancy - Each element in a permaculture design supports many different functions, just like the forest. In the forest, everything has its duty. The birds are the planters. Fertile forests that are a billion years old are so complex that they are highly adaptable and productive. Permaculture is reliable. It is not stable like concrete or roads, there are hundreds of constant adjustments that need to be made like when you ride a bike. It is not like a machine. Teaching and learning - permaculture offers tools to show people they already have the resources - reskilling. You just have to put things in the right places and understand relationships already present in nature. Modern agriculture - produces money not food = agribusiness. Yet Commercially available food would be 95% cheaper if the food was grown locally (New York City as an example). 13% of food is lost in the distribution process. Since the 1940s:
Some Quotes from Bill (not verbatim):
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