All posts in the topic Toby Hemenway site about permaculture and related things (Short link)

From: Josh Campbell Date: 2006 Jul 03 09:48 NZST Short link

Andrew Groom wrote:
> I've just finished reading the book "Gaia's Garden" by Toby Hemenway
> (available from Christchurch City libraries) and coincidentally
> stumbled upon his site:
>
> http://www.patternliteracy.com/index.html
>
> He seems to have a very balanced perspective about how Peak Oil will
> pan out and what it means for the Western way of life. Well worth a read.
Nice. I like his ideas on 'zones' and placement based on interaction
(sounds slightly familiar actually). I was just saying to Cynthia that
the garden is completely in the wrong place...but as we don't own the
place we can't really make major changes (like bowling the garage and
moving the garden across the lawn).

I showed my students "End of Suburbia" as an end-of-term break from
work. It was an interesting exercise and some seemed to take the basics
on board. More interestingly they started asking questions that took me
a good year to ask. Must be that combination of design process learning
and a problem to solve :-)

Andrew: I'm on holiday if you have some time to catch up sometime. It's
been a while and I have all this homebrew beer and wine sitting around :-)

Talk soon
Josh
    

From: Andrew Groom Date: 2006 Jul 03 12:37 NZST Short link

Hi Josh,

Josh Campbell wrote:
> Thanks for sending that Toby Hemenway site through Andrew. Just been
> reading a few of the articles and especially liked:
> http://www.patternliteracy.com/urban.html

Yeah, it's very thought-provoking, a good antidote to the temptations to
  "go bush" :-)

> Where are you up to with your permaculture plans?

We've had Carl Perkins from One Earth Matters
(www.oneearthmatters.co.nz) do us a concept plan for our property and
are just going to mull it over for a few days, but it looks good. Lots
more space for veges and fruit trees :-) I'll share the plan when it's
all done.
    

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