PERMACULTURE GROWs

1. Organic & natural home gardening food

2. Eco-Forestry is sustainable ecology

3. Organic seed saving systems

4. Fractal patterns of earth energy

5. Multiple purpose plants & any.....

6. PC design course dimensions.

7. $$$ invasion of Bali is ruining......

8. Feng Shui & homEcology & PC

9. Dragon & animal Chi in land-forms

10. PC ecovillage functions & needs

11. PC glossary100 basic & advanced terms

12. Water purity, health & patterns of flow

13. Air ion energy effects on health & land

14. Proposal for PC project in a rural park

15. Paramagnetism & natural fertility

SOME MAJOR THEMES IN PC - advancing evolution

Recycling & multi-functions Natural energy patterns flow

Primal elements at work Plant, soil & animal fertility

Infinite diversity & change Improving on wilderness

Reclaiming abused land Multi-uses of water systems

Consciously designing space Using edges, curves & spirals

So our challange is to create a whole fertile food growing system that works together & lets us play & relax in bliss, being healthy & raising beautiful creatures & children loving mama nature. In PC we use the opposites of organic systems to growing advantage, naturally alternating between peace of watching & waiting, to working & sweating, then relaxing in cycles. Like hot/cool & wet/dry cycles of weather, in arid & tropics. However these can suddenly reverse in extremes of the tropical dry season, then mosoon downpours, that also happen in deserts, tho rarer. So we get ready for the radical reversals! Like we harvest water & save it for dry spells, & channel excess rain across, into & off-site, to natures advantage, evolving in varied eco-zones. There are 1000s of PC systems useable in infinite changes & places. So we learn from all sources how to grow more food with less work, time & cost than we thot possible before now. Realizing our new potential is synergy, the organic essense of PC play.

PC FOLKs are GROWING INTUITIVE NATURAL HOMES

Open minds & green thumbs need spacenergy to grow food

THERE's lO,OOOs of us hippies on land growing food at home. But most don't know or practice PC from a design course on land. Conversly now there's millions of traditional people doing unconscious PC methods with-out a organic understanding of their systems of growing food. "We do it this way, because our ancestors have always done it like this," is common answer to 'why to you do this now?' While us Gaians, hippies & newagers how can choose to be natural now, even if we hate official/authority. Most hippies are drop-outs from society & cities, rejecting any systems of training from hard school experiences. If we're raised up at home in the country, its great advantage to learning & doing PC

However many intuitive landed hippies are studying, learning, testing & improving land fertility in seasons cycles, with bigger systems after successful tests. We need to be aware of plants whole lifecycles, that helps us plant it where it will grow best. This is critical for trees (& our structures) that grow for decades to be in fertile eco-zone spacing/zonation to complete the harvest cycles & make seed we can use. Most Animal we grow require awareness of their daily needs for energy to sustain their lifecycles, if we want them integrated & productive of food, craft materials & poop for fertilizer. We need to love for natures infinite changes at home, more than idealistic hopes & vacations, to naturally grow healthy food.

Acclimatizing our bodymind cycles, attitudes & habits is essential for living on PC land, being outdoors to learn, work & play, thru the seasons changes of weather. All creatures organicallly acclimatize/change to adapt to new patterns of energy to grow healthy in relation to each other. Bugs are natures recyclers. However, how many new landers are bugged by bugs, that feed on the waste in a given system. Bugs even like sweet blood, rotten compost, wet & warm zones & weather cycles.

Most our neat & clean city-attitudes about dirt, bugs, wild animals, cold & wet weather are challanged in rural-living, being on land, growing food, animals & children. lO,OOOs of hippies have left city, 'back to the land' to be more natural than ever before, but failed to acclimatize to strong challanges nature constantly offers us to use creatively. Being away from cities tech treats & electricity is a daily test of our openess, needs. flexability, courage, senses & commitment to grow more earth loving.

Its taken me 15 years of semi-natural, hippy yoga, 19 yrs of vegetarian & much deep soul-body healing to naturalize enuf to live on land, grow food & love PC organic living in balance. We relearn how to learn from experience of more potential daily. So our technique & timing, learning skills & fertility talents expand in eco-cycles. I also study astrology, which teaches me about cosmic weather cycles & influences.

In PC all creatures are respected, food growing ones more than pests, we creativelly prevent, clear out & recycle.

I am a old hippy yogi PCer, overeducated college grad who, working to naturalize myself since '71(26 yo) to '90 when i found PC. Many other hippies moved to land to be more naturaliving than in cities, where i did years of deep soul healing, gestalt encountering, yoga, primal scream & Rebirthing, while volunteering to serve friends & community.

I practice dozens of natural self help health care systems growing since '60s liberation movements like: vegetarian, macrobiotics, yoga, Tai Chi, herbs, Do-In=Shiatzu, massage, Chinese medicine, etc. We are Gaians - rejecting square city rules, laws & order because we need to learn the spiral waves of mother nature used fully in PC design courses & landsites.

Most PC students have done gardening, own or live on growable land &or grow/n marijuana, as millions of still do. It seems PC is a organic spiritual path of unity with nature, far beyond the parts done seperatly, living for taste &or security. So we must reverse our training to want, shop & buy for good image or taste, to grow our energy sources at home simply. That's why so few gardeners & pot growers do PC, evolving into total nature lovers with new attitudes & habit patterns.

This is like being naturally healthy, preventing disease & growing our medicine, reverses the trend of pig-out, get sick & buy factory medicine to fix unatural stresses on our health. We can enjoy natural elements of fire/sunshine, pure water drinking & baths; deep breathing clean air, touching fertile soil & fun exersize keep us healthy! If we get sick we can sweat/fever, do herbs, massage, sunbathe, yoga, fasting, bed rest cure & detox out any stress we got, back into balancing.

The other big new patterns for civilized/city/zens is open cooperating with nature & the neighbors nearby. We don't compete with nature, like we're trained to in city schools, sports & business. The more we cooperate with nature, the more harmony, food & pleasure we harvest, gathering free energy: air, fire, water, earth: food, wood, handicrafts & compost all feed our PC homesite.

1. BECAUSE we love to see & feel the whole foods cycles.

2. Because we plant it in fertile soil we helped build up

3. Because we get to harvest it fresh, more vital & nutritious

4. Because fresh food has more energy & taste we enjoy

5. Because it saves us costly trips to store to buy it

6. Because we are/know who & how its grown

7. Because it saves us the costs of packaging

8. Because we give compost back to the land fertilizes it

9. Because we get to learn the whole life cycle of it

10. Because we an process to store simply at home

11. Because we can harvest surplus to trade with

12. Because we can plant to harvest in stages to use.

RECYCLING RESOURCES IS MULTI-USE AT HOME

WE like to recycle things at home, saves us energy to get & buy them: organic matter from plants, animals, water & earth to build with, feed plantsoil, clean, enjoy & harvest, like animal poop & food scraps we compost for fertilizer. We're very careful about recycling seeds because they'll will sprout, especially in soil or compost, warning about weed seeds!!!!

Gleaning food is where we gather whatever extra/surplus is after a harvest to use, eat, feed animals, compost, mulch or??

containers: bottles, jars, cans, bowls, baskets, lids bags, frames, doors, chests, cups, tubs, boxes, pots, pans, screens, fences, walls, bricks, buckets, caps, cases, tubes, wire, racks, sleeping bags, gates, books, blankets, tanks, locks, nets,

Tools: hand/power types, food & camping, recharge batteries

car/mechine/electrical parts, fabric/clothe, rope, string, rugs, twine, bicycles, wax, cotten, beds, screws, nuts, bolts, hooks, hinges & ? Toys especiallly if natural, simple & cheap to use!

Water naturally recycles itself in a million ways, which we use at PC sites: simply harvesting rainwater, catching surface runoff into ponds/behind dams, channeling it to ground & plants, reusing 'grey' wash-water into gardens, cleaning up dirty water with purification systems: flow forms, aquaculture & filterating in varied simple ways.