The topic of tonight's meeting was "permaculture" and Sophie & Martin spoke about how Permculture is a matter of working with, rather than against nature "an integration of ecological design principles, ethics and values".
Sophie suggested that we look to some of the patterns in nature for design inspiration. We were also challenged to consider our land use: are plants grown for ornamental purposes, or as food for sustainable living?
Following on from last month's talk about gardening (for food), the Permaculture way of thinking challenges the crop-rotation way of gardening, favouring combination planting.
Much of the background to the concept of Permaculture comes from Bill Mollison: more about him can be read here.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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