posted 4 months ago
I am seeing something very inspiring as I make more community connections. I am seeing permaculture EVERYWHERE.
I visited someone today only a short distance from me. The family had a small permaculture garden going on and though it seemed like the plants might have been a bit too close together it was very inspiring. A lot of hard work went into it and it showed in the berries growing everywhere, in the beautiful flowers (which were grown permaculturally) and their mushrooms and herbs and generally thriving garden ecosystem. So much life and vitality there. Not only that but their neighbor is also a permie, who mostly is interested in native plants. Over the mountain lives a friend who I would describe as having permaculture-ish ways of doing things but doesn’t use the label. Who lives near to a farm that has planted acres of food forest. And then there is a third permaculture adjacent farm, and another organization that does and promotes permaculture and sustainability… do I live in a bubble or is this starting to become the norm?
To qualify all of that, I notice that they tend to be clustered in areas of natural beauty and fertile soil which haven’t been gentrified. In gentrified sections, things seem very dry permaculture-wise. Mostly big dry lawns.
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