Why permaculture rather than other kinds of gardening? What is the mission of the We Are All Farmers Permaculture Institute? A brief brainstorm on a specific permaculture design site at Washington & Lee University in Lexingtonm VA, USA.
Is our current materialistic lifestyle sustainable for our planet? How long can we continue to do things that make us feel good, but that are harmful and not sustainable for our environment? We need to start seeing our interests and nature’s interest as one and the same.
At, HFI’s Institute of Customer Experience (ICE) we believe that there is hope to turn things around from leading a materialistic lifestyle that is indifferent to the planet to leading a sustainable lifestyle; and we have that hope in people. So we went out searching for people from around the world who do live a sustainable lifestyle, and it shows in their work and in their personal lives each day. They are ordinary people, but with a refreshing new mindset, which makes them extraordinary. They are cleaning up our planet, making it a better place to live in, and empathizing with nature all along the way. They mobilize others into action and have drawn many to their work.
We at ICE believe that these people are the “Trendsetters for Sustainable Lifestyles”. Through the eight photobooks that follow we want to showcase their work to the world for the simple and elegant ways in which they have made a difference to the planet as individuals. They are doing their bit and as a result have positively affected communities and the environment around them. We hope they inspire our readers the way that they have inspired us. If we can learn from sustainability being their state of mind and from their work, we can make changes in our lives and fields of work to start living in a manner that will keep Earth a beautiful and habitable place for us for a very long time to come.
Permaculture Workshop, How to Recipes, Site DesignEdward Marshall
This is the presentation for a free two-day permaculture workshop 8 of our students and two We Are All Farmers Permaculture Institute folks conducted in the WV coalfields. Along with how to organize a workshop, this includes thinking about a site for permaculture design, ethics in permaculture, as well as how to recipes for key practices such as sheet mulch, composting, vermiculture, water catchment, and beautification.
Is our current materialistic lifestyle sustainable for our planet? How long can we continue to do things that make us feel good, but that are harmful and not sustainable for our environment? We need to start seeing our interests and nature’s interest as one and the same.
At, HFI’s Institute of Customer Experience (ICE) we believe that there is hope to turn things around from leading a materialistic lifestyle that is indifferent to the planet to leading a sustainable lifestyle; and we have that hope in people. So we went out searching for people from around the world who do live a sustainable lifestyle, and it shows in their work and in their personal lives each day. They are ordinary people, but with a refreshing new mindset, which makes them extraordinary. They are cleaning up our planet, making it a better place to live in, and empathizing with nature all along the way. They mobilize others into action and have drawn many to their work.
We at ICE believe that these people are the “Trendsetters for Sustainable Lifestyles”. Through the eight photobooks that follow we want to showcase their work to the world for the simple and elegant ways in which they have made a difference to the planet as individuals. They are doing their bit and as a result have positively affected communities and the environment around them. We hope they inspire our readers the way that they have inspired us. If we can learn from sustainability being their state of mind and from their work, we can make changes in our lives and fields of work to start living in a manner that will keep Earth a beautiful and habitable place for us for a very long time to come.
Permaculture Workshop, How to Recipes, Site DesignEdward Marshall
This is the presentation for a free two-day permaculture workshop 8 of our students and two We Are All Farmers Permaculture Institute folks conducted in the WV coalfields. Along with how to organize a workshop, this includes thinking about a site for permaculture design, ethics in permaculture, as well as how to recipes for key practices such as sheet mulch, composting, vermiculture, water catchment, and beautification.
Permaculture is a design system based on ethics and design principles which can be used to establish, design, manage and improve holistic management of individuals, businesses, communities and social-ecological systems.
L'intento del Petalo “Beauty” (Bellezza) è quello di riconoscere la necessità di bellezza come un elemento indispensabile per garantire una cura sufficiente per preservare, conservare e servire il bene comune.
Andrew Noble presents on how we need to change the way we do agriculture so that it builds resilience into our food systems. Sustainable governance and management of ecosystems, natural resources and Earth system processes at large, provides the basis for practical solutions towards a sustainable resilient agriculture.
Find out more about what WLE is doing: wle.cgiar.org
Introduction To Permaculture Weekend CourseKat Szuminska
An introduction to Permaculture Course first given at the Hawkesbury Earthcare Centre in April 2009
http://www.earthcare.org.au/intropermcourse by Penny & Karim http://caughtintheart.blogspot.com/
& Kat http://twitter.com/katska
The course is based on Bill Mollison's "Introduction to Permaculture" http://www.tagari.com/item.php?itemid=156
Permaculture is a design system based on ethics and design principles which can be used to establish, design, manage and improve holistic management of individuals, businesses, communities and social-ecological systems.
L'intento del Petalo “Beauty” (Bellezza) è quello di riconoscere la necessità di bellezza come un elemento indispensabile per garantire una cura sufficiente per preservare, conservare e servire il bene comune.
Andrew Noble presents on how we need to change the way we do agriculture so that it builds resilience into our food systems. Sustainable governance and management of ecosystems, natural resources and Earth system processes at large, provides the basis for practical solutions towards a sustainable resilient agriculture.
Find out more about what WLE is doing: wle.cgiar.org
Introduction To Permaculture Weekend CourseKat Szuminska
An introduction to Permaculture Course first given at the Hawkesbury Earthcare Centre in April 2009
http://www.earthcare.org.au/intropermcourse by Penny & Karim http://caughtintheart.blogspot.com/
& Kat http://twitter.com/katska
The course is based on Bill Mollison's "Introduction to Permaculture" http://www.tagari.com/item.php?itemid=156
Setting Up African Permaculture School Gardens
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Mekong Forum 2013 Opening remarks andrew campbellCPWF Mekong
3rd Mekong Forum on Water, Food & Energy 2013. Opening remarks by Professor Andrew Campbell, Head, School of Environment; Director, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods; Director, Centre for Renewable Energy, all at Charles Darwin University in Australia.
School, Community & Home Gardening Resource Guide; Gardening Guidebook for Tompkins County, New York ~ Cornell University ~ For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Huerto Ecológico, Tecnologías Sostenibles, Agricultura Organica
http://scribd.com/doc/239850233
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Presentation made to the Sunnyvale Neighborhood Association on November 14, 2011 by Wolfram Alderson, Executive Director, Sustainable Community Gardens.
2. Why We Are All Farmers?
Everyone can take more responsibility for their food
and energy production/use–thus, We Are All Farmers.
Why are you
We Are All Farmers ?
Start where we are, start with our community, start with hands-on
approaches, bridge unusual suspects, create community
Response to the stats–act local coupled with policy (both are needed)
Academic is important; research is important—not the focus of this
presentation; not the current focus of what our institute does
3. What is permaculture?
Permanent culture
Permanent agriculture
Regenerative, managed practices (economic,
interpersonal, ethical, often with a focus on food and
energy production/management)
“care of people, care of earth, share of surplus to both”
Many permaculture rock stars: Bill Mollison, David
Holgrem, Geoff Lawton, Masanobu Fukuoka, Sepp
Holzer—More important than these people
themselves are the communities created, the ethics
adhered to, and the approaches stewarded
5. Why permaculture?
Why did we choose this?
Been there and done that with
other modes of farming
(Edward) and other modes of
social change (Crystal).
Worldwide network, lots of info
sharing, lots of methods tried
and true; jive with our ethics
6. Why the Appalachian-
Piedmont region?
Opportunity to be back in the region we are from
Important to commit to a community and a region
Important to recommit to being land-based people
Important work to do in our own “back yards”
Stewarding land and community take investment over
the long haul
A permaculture institute needed to serve this region
Focus on community & practices with lower $ entry-
points into energy and food production/responsibility
7. All well and good–
but what does that look like?
5 Lee Avenue, Lexington, Virginia 24450 USA
Turning a grass plot into permaculture: “care of people, care of earth, share of surplus to both.”
How can we envision those ethics with this site? How do we make a system that produces a
yield and has high labor at the beginning, but less labor over time?
8. USDA Hardiness Zone 6b: -5F to 0F
Last Frost Date (2013): 5/12
First Frost Date (2013): 10/2
Average Growing Season: >149 days
Average annual precipitation 40.0 inches
13. Examples of Integration
From the Left clockwise: treehugger.com; ordinary-2-extraordinary.com; upbeetlandscapes.com
14. The food forest gardening approach is the creation of systems
which are productive and abundant yet which require very
little maintenance.
http://foodgrowsontrees.blogspot.com/
16. All well and good–but what does that
look like?
5 Lee Avenue, Lexington, Virginia 24450 USA
Turning a grass plot into permaculture: “care of people, care of earth, share of
surplus to both.”
How can we envision those ethics with this site?
How do we make a system that produces a yield and has high labor at the
beginning, but less labor over time?
21. Take flyers for our courses/workshops
Free two day workshop in the WV coal fields March 29/30
Free Crop Mob & Pig Roast April 27
Seeking WWOOFers/farm interns
Full weekends only PDC this fall-- one full work exchange still available +
four ½ exchanges
Facebook/Pinterest/Twitter: weareallfarmers
Keep in touch!
Get involved!
Happy permaculturing!
22. “The field lies open to the intellect.”
--Bill Mollison
Let's go see
5 Lee Avenue,
Lexington, Virginia 24450!!!