I'm curious about you Permies. What brought you to this odd path? Is it a quest for truth and purpose? Is it practicality? I've been thinking about what it means to me:
Permaculture is a framework of cultivation dependant on humans’ practical and spiritual interconnectedness with Earth. It requires overcoming the indoctrination and social engineering that has made us dependent on a man-made control grid; it is relinquishing the notions that humans are a scourge on the Earth, that we are either victims or privileged—that we are a critically flawed species and that survival is a competition. Permaculture is the shedding of these skins/identities that serve no purpose other than to inhibit our growth. It is taking ownership of the fact that we are all indigenous humans, uprooted at various points in history by unnatural forces. It means relying on our own observations, intuitions and pattern recognition to progress. It is the sacred recognition of the Earth’s resilience, of which we are a part—better without technologies, medicines and paradigms that subvert our innate power. Permaculture is not convoluted or myopic and does not reside on the left or right side of a political construct. Because things are not always as they seem, it requires us to look beyond virtue signals. There’s no conformity in Permaculture, so it requires neither politically correct speech nor total agreement in perspective. It values the flourishing of order within chaos, where all is resolved organically, with patience. As natural beings, we grow better and more connected with diversity of expression which feeds systemic collaboration and integrity. Permaculture reaches beyond the carbon-centric view of Earth degradation. It offers the potential remedies for the insidious destruction from environmental toxins, EMFs, GMOs, land clearing, resource extraction, migratory disruption and human exploitation. A Permaculture ethic calculates the true cost of Globalization and opts out in favor of decentralized food and power systems. Permaculture is a radical lifestyle challenge requiring us to reassess our convictions, indulgences and conveniences, to consider better alignment with Holmgren’s Principles. Permaculture means honoring ourselves and each other as integral members of an inextricably connected sphere of multiple intelligences.
What is it for you?
![]()
\\\
