Category: Permaculture

  • Why we sing

    “The song is the key to the pattern and the two of the them are all the scientific information that was created together in that group. And that’s why we sing, to carry messages. Song, art, dance and celebration are the scientific encodement of traditional knowledge.” Bill Mollison

  • Better Gardener, Better Friend

    The gardener is attentive – attentive to the plants, the soil and the weather. The gardener is flexible and opportunistic. The gardener leaves room in her life to take advantage of opportunities. Being a gardener is a different mode of existence. Becoming a gardener changes you fundementally. Before you became a gardener,you might have filled…

  • Spreading Destruction

    Over a year ago I started writing a potentially long post that I didn’t get very far with. It had to with money and economics and what not. Yesterday I got fired up about it again (you’ll have to read on to find out what got me started) and so here I am getting this…

  • Permaculture and Yoga: Introduction

    Introduction This post is potentially (depending mostly on available time, internet connectivity and motivation to write) a first in a series where I will try to call upon some metaphors from the world of Yoga in my attempt to make sense of permaculture. Nothing would please me better then being able to add a link…