I don't know if there's already a
thread for this, if someone knows you could merge it.
Here's something that seems like a beautiful example of the Tesla Roadster effect coming into fruition!
Geoff Lawton made this
video.
Paul Wheaton made up the term Tesla Roadster effect (oops, not Roaster, as I mis-typed, having just been writing about
Rocket Mass Heaters...oops!)--that once an item becomes viewed as a luxury item for a few, it then gets leveraged popularity for many. Paul said he thought that once
permaculture got this kind of visibility as a luxury "item" it would likely catch on.
Some examples of this already in existence are $4000 hams in Portugal (sort of
permaculture, I think, since they are restricting the pigs' diet), and
Sepp Holzer's farm is also pretty high-end as I understand it.
I thought people could post examples of posh
permaculture gardens here if you find them, and any comments about them that are useful.
Here's Geoff Lawton's one:
http://www.geofflawton.com/fe/77655-up-market-permaculture?r=y (you probably have to enter in your email address to get to view it, and they send occasional emails)
Geoff Lawton takes a tour of an "upmarket" (upscale) permaculture garden in California. It seemed pretty high-end to me, and very beautiful. The house has to be worth millions. The aesthetics of the design were quite impressive, and there's a lot of food--berries, mangoes, bananas, custard
apple, a relative of monkey puzzle nuts, some herbs are what I recall--and it's fairly self-maintaining. The owners go away for several months at a time.
I think it's significant that they took a
PDC, they didn't simply have someone do it all for them. Maybe that would influence other wealthy people to take
PDC's also. I think there's no substitute for knowledge and direct
experience.
I have a sense the
land could be used more productively, but it's hard to tell from a video, and it seems like it strikes a balance between aesthetics/space and productivity.
I like that they have a quote in the garden-- "Do only what you love!" I agree with that sentiment! The owner is a photographer. Seems pretty happy.
