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Do you have a mature, commercially active Permaculture operation?

 
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The question constantly comes up in both pro-permaculture and permaculture-skeptical literature.  Finally, here's a chance to generate published scientific data on yield/land use for permaculture food producers! 

If you have a mature permaculture operation, and produce lots of food (especially for sale to the surrounding community), I'd love to talk to you about including your operation in my thesis research.  I hope to generate a case study on at least 3 solid operations.  The result will be a sustainable development MSc thesis, which will hopefully be published in a scientific journal. 

I'll happily work with producers on any continent.  If you get in touch, I can explain the methodology a little more thoroughly.  It will require significant record-keeping, but I think the benefits (global awareness, and hopefully scientific validation for permaculture and forest gardening yield sustainability) will be worth the effort!! 

Thanks, fellow permies, for your help!
 
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Here are three operations you might want to try contacting, if you haven't already:

Sepp Holzer's Krameterhof:  http://www.krameterhof.at/index.php?id=kontakt

Bean Tree Farm:  http://beantreefarm.com/

Bullock Brothers Farm:  http://www.permacultureportal.com/contact.html
 
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