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Summary
part 1 of a 2 part podcast
Paul is with Samantha talking about gardening gardeners
Paul has been visiting Portland, OR and has been to a bunch of potlucks. During this, he saw a lot of pear trees but a lot of pears on the ground. People seemed not to be able to preserve or use all the harvest. Yet other people he visits dream of having a pear tree.
As an example he talks of a place where a woman has 3 houses surrounded by a large garden with a community of about 8 people, and all of them were supposed to be gardeners. However, the people seem unable to do anything about using the pears. Paul feels she's unhappy as it hasn't worked out.
Paul's Boot camp is one example of what Paul calls gardening gardeners - a community which grows food and all work to gather harvest and preserve it. Paul recalls his community in Seattle, where everyone was keen on the idea of gardening and permaculture but almost all weren't keen to actually do it. Unlike the earlier community, boots don't pay rent. They contribute to the community in order to support it. Samantha says this makes them free from the everyday need to earn money to survive, and thus are able to spend time gardening.
Samantha feels that comes down to people's values, for some people the value of things like social life outweigh the value of growing your own food.
Paul feels that the "gardeners" from the earlier example would likely fit well into a program such as boot camp, and be happier than being stuck in the "conventional" existence of working a worky job to pay for their lifestyle and which leaves them little time to actually be gardeners. He's convinced that one good success with gardening gardeners would mean the idea would spread.
Relevant Threads
Welcome to the new Pears forum
Pears forum
permaculture bootcamp - gardening gardeners; grow the food you eat and build your own home
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