Nick Jennison

Hey Paul,

The main thing I'm noticing is that a lot of the pictures are pretty dark/under-expose, especially against the white background of the kickstarter site. Should be an easy fix in any photo editing software and definitely not a big deal. The main place I noticed were all the faces on the initial image.

Let me know if I can help somehow!

Nick

Tyler Ludens wrote:I also feel that demonstrating results is the most effective form of teaching.  My husband and I hope to demonstrate that by using permaculture principles and techniques we can save our county road from the next big flood.  This isn't as dramatic as developing a full-on permaculture demonstration site, but it would still be keen.

That is great work to be doing! Supporting the local community with permaculture principles = people care. Trying to save the infrastructure is a good goal AND at the same time you're preventing erosion with the  potential to harvest the runoff water for something else productive. That's a great thing to call a demonstration site and one we should most definitely want to show off to the wider community!

Be the change- that's what permies do.

I'm all in. Excited to finish my PDC with Geoff online and then start contributing any way I can. I think one of the first steps for a wider acceptance of Permaculture is to clear the "hippy" name from it. Not that the hippy name in general is bad...but the people who make decisions and such seem to have the notion that permaculture people are just tree huggers...when really it's about changing the way we design and live our lives in order to better our local communities and slowly the world at large. I agree, Paul, that having demonstration sites (of ALL sizes) is important so people can see the benefit of moving towards a more "lazy" and beneficial system for all. Let me know what I can do to help!

I've tried scything with a dull blade and, as you might expect, had a hard time. I'll be very interested to learn more about the process and how to maintain scythes. Then I'll promote it at them farm I work with to try to get rid of the tractor mower!