Joel Salatin, the worlds most famous farmer took a moment to share a few thoughts with Lisa Heenan on RegenAG.
Source: RegenAG.com
Joe Salatin's RegenAG endorsement
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Jul 192010
Hogan Gleeson, principal of EcoCityFarm and Rivendell Organics gives a presentation on the Soil Food Web at Djangbung Gardens, the Permaculture College Australia in Nimbin
Soil Food Web Presentation (partial) by Hogan Gleeson from Jack Heimsoth on Vimeo.
Source: Jack Heimsoth
Jul 142010
Costa from the popular SBS television series ‘Costa’s Garden Odyssey‘ recently attended two RegenAG workshops at Taranaki Farm in Central Victoria.
Image Source: SBS
In this video he talks about the rewarding, practical experience he enjoyed. To book your place in the upcoming RegenAG Workshop Series, visit www.RegenAG.com
Costa’s Garden Odyssey
Costa is a man of the people. A man who can connect with all. His infectious character and passion for his subject puts people at ease and makes them shine.
A Landscape Architect with an all-consuming passion for plants and people – Costa knows how to find the best in both of them, and takes great pleasure in bringing them together.
Costa’s Garden Odyssey is a groundbreaking magazine style series that allows this unique Greek Garden Guru an opportunity to do what he does best – spread his green wisdom while communicating with people and celebrating cultures and community in a way never seen before on Australian television.
Costa’s Garden Odyssey shows us how to tread lightly – embracing nature’s cycles and seasons, investigating and championing our local produce from it’s source, and illustrating that in gardens, plants aren’t the only things that grow… people do to.
Costa will take you to the joyous, harmonious heart of the garden. It’s about gardening the soil and the soul.
Source: SBS
June Agriculture Walkthrough at Factor e Farm by Sean
The bottom line is that resilience in food is not difficult to come by, but it presently requires more energy than we have with 2 full time people – engaged fully in open source equipment development. We are prioritizing technical development, such that appropriate-technology mechanized agriculture makes food provision effective. Our next priorities in terms of the type of generalists we’d like to have at Factor e Farm is 2 more flexible fabricators and the open source agroecologist. The flexible fabricators should generalize in power electronics and CNC controls, and the agroecologics should generalize in agricultural and processing equipment development.
Source: Open Farm Tech
Jun 252010
Industrial Symbiosis Kalundborg, Denmark
Pathways to Sustainable Self-Governance: Democratic Open-Source Food and Manufacturing Networks
Short Description
Worker Cooperative Networks for Sovereignty of Food, Commerce, & Community: Panel/Breakouts/Discussion to Envision & Chart Implementation Framework of Industrial Permaculture Ecology
Full Workshop Proposal
Pathways to Sustainable Self-Governance: Democratic Open-Source Food and Manufacturing Networks
Workshop Information
Event Date: Fri, 06/25/2010 – 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Event Location: Wayne County Community College: 23A
Full Description:
This workshop outlines a vision for a democratic, worker-owned, advanced industrial ecology society. We seek pathways to provide the burgeoning food education/justice movement with the tools to become economically sustainable, and to link the emerging green industrial worker cooperatives with them into sovereign networks. Once active, such networks can become the basis for sustainable, socially just communities that revitalize locales via open source sustainable agriculture and manufacturing methods. Our panel — with academic, commercial, and school of hard knocks experience — will frame the demonstrated solutions, numerous pieces of the puzzle that we as a society need to put together.
Pathways to Sustainable Self-Governance: Democratic Open-Source Food and Manufacturing Networks
Short Description
Worker Cooperative Networks for Sovereignty of Food, Commerce, & Community: Panel/Breakouts/Discussion to Envision & Chart Implementation Framework of Industrial Permaculture Ecology
Full Workshop Proposal
Pathways to Sustainable Self-Governance: Democratic Open-Source Food and Manufacturing Networks
Collaborating Organizations
Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives (2543) | Mandela Marketplace (2339) | Planting Justice (1407) | Mandela Foods Cooperative (2340) | Abolish Human Rentals (1460) | Permaculture Cooperative (1720)
Photo: Oakland Sol: Oakland Sustaining Ourselves Locally who generously provided accommodation, workspace and knowledge during incubation of this workshop
Collaborating Organizations
Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives (2543)
The Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives is itself a cooperative made up of five member businesses: four cooperative bakeries and a development and support collective. Members share a common mission, share ongoing accounting, legal, educational and other support services, and support the development of new member cooperatives by the Association. http://arizmendi.coop
Mandela Marketplace (2339)
Mandela Market Place is a pioneer in development, application and assessment of community food systems. The organization evolved since 2001, first as a project of the Environmental Justice Institute – Tides Center, until incorporating in 2005 as a stand-alone 501c3 organization with a goal to strengthen community health, integrity and indentity by providing economic opportunity and empowerment for inner-city Oakland residents and businesses, and local family farms. Mandela MarketPlace works directly with community residents, local, state and federal agencies, non-profits, small business owners, and farmers to support strategies to meet food needs, expand economic opportunity and increase self-reliance of low-income and disenfranchised people. http://mandelamarketplace.org
Planting Justice (1407)
Planting Justice is a non-profit organization based in Oakland, CA dedicated to food justice, economic justice, and sustainable local food systems. We are the first organization of our kind to combine ecological training and urban food production with a grassroots door-to-door organizing model that will vastly increase our educational community outreach, help us to recruit volunteers, decentralize our fundraising sources, and provide local jobs that also train young community organizers. http://www.plantingjustice.org
Mandela Foods Cooperative (2340)
Mandela Foods Cooperative is a locally-owned and operated full-service grocery store and nutrition education center located in West Oakland, a community long underserved in grocery retail. The present undersupply of food retail in West Oakland represents an opportunity to leverage untapped local buying power into new business and employment opportunities and healthy eating options for West Oakland residents. The Cooperative will offer local goods, wholesome, fresh and affordable foods grown on family farms, nutrition education classes and a cooperative economic investment program that provides multi-level investment for community residents. http://www.mandelafoods.com
Abolish Human Rentals (1460)
Abolish Human Rentals is dedicated to bringing an old idea into the public conscience, that the standard employment relationship, a contract for the rental of people, is invalid due to the inalienable rights of humans. It is based on the already widely held principle of the non-transferability of responsibility for one’s actions. That principle, taken to its logical conclusion, means the rental of humans have no more legitimacy than their sale. http://www.abolishhumanrentals.org
Collaborating Organizations:
Arizmendi Assn. of Cooperatives (2543) — http://arizmendi.coop — and
Mandela Marketplace (2339) — http://mandelamarketplace.org — and
Planting Justice (1407) — http://www.plantingjustice.org — and
Mandela Foods Cooperative (2340) — http://www.mandelafoods.com — and
Abolish Human Rentals (1460) — http://www.abolishhumanrentals.org
Language(s): English
Tracks:
Climate Justice: sustainability, resources and land
Democracy and Governance
Important pieces that will be presented here include the successful strategies employed in the worker cooperative networks/alliances of Mondragon, Ohio, and the San Francisco Bay Area, Permaculture design strategies implemented even in harsh climate zones, Denmark’s national industrial symbiosis program, non-parasitic capitalization of non-hierarchical enterprises, and regenerative urban food justice paradigms.
Participants will self-organize into groups to construct models that put some of the pieces together. Workshop participants will then seek to bolster viability of the proposed models, emphasizing possible pilot programs in Detroit, Oakland and in Brooklyn.
Panel members include Quinton Sankofa of Mandela Marketplace and James Berk of Mandela Foods Cooperative, Mike Leung of the embryonic Worker Cooperative Credit Union, and Gavin Raiders of Planting Justice. Facilitator: Kirstie Stramler of Permaculture Cooperative.
For updates leading up to USSF 2010, see the panel and workshop group pages on http://organize.ussf2010.org and videos on http://permaculture.tv/tag/ussf2010/ .
Organizer Name: Kirstie Stramler
Organizer Email: kirstie@permaculture.tv
First Sponsoring Organization Name: Permaculture Cooperative
Jun 232010
Alemany Farm is a 4 acre, fully functioning urban farm nestled between a major highway intersection, a newly gentrified neighborhood on a hill and a housing project- the perfect place to grow some food! We got a tour (and some amazing fruit) from Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Volunteer Coordinator and soon to be videoblogger/documentarian extraordinaire. The work being done at Alemany Farm proves the point that urban farming and local food production is totally possible and necessary for the health and well being of a city and its inhabitants. Local farming and gardening are great motivators for people to get acquainted, eat more healthily and become more connected with where their food comes from and what it actually is (olives grow on trees? broccoli is a flower?). If you live in the SF Bay area, you can visit or volunteer at Alemany Farm on the weekends- check out AlemanyFarm.org.
Source: RyanIsHungry
Jun 232010
Quinton Sankofa explains how Mandela Marketplace, West Oakland accepted the community call for ownership of problem and solutions
Sustainable Self-Governance – Fri 25th, 3.30-5.30 pm USSF2010 – Detroit – Wayne County Community College http://permaculture.coop/ussf2010
planting justice
mandela food, mandela marketplace
http://permaculture.coop/ussf2010
Permaculture and the great renewal…
This is not a dooms day post about the world ending at all but rather a post about our many evolutions, the great power of synergy, and esspecially of compassion. 2012 is not only about a great astrological alignment as perdicted by the mayan calender not seen for over 25,000 years in which our solar system will be in line with the exact meridian and center of the Milky Way Galaxy, but also a alignment of human beings with a new positive intention for the planet. In my mind is a vision of huge numbers of people working harmoniously together and cooperating as a united but diverse global force for good. This is just so much doom out there about 2012 it is hard find anything reliable unless you know what your looking at. I like this animated video below because it’s easy to understand and very nicely gives you the idea. It is up to each of us to create as much interconnective sharing as possible as creative enegry sparks a new conciousness emerging all over the world. Digital media and mobile technology are making this even easier to facilitate, but most importantly, we have to connect with our hearts to our work and those we work with and love. Please comment if this video ressonates with you or anyone you know in anyway or if you just think it’s hippy dippy b.s. I would still want to know …..Gaia punks unite!
Source: Punk Rock Permaculture
Jun 052010
La Finca Agroecológica Utopía es una experiencia de resistencia integral detrás de los cerros de Monserrate en los Andes colombianos.
Finca Agroecológica Utopía 1/4 from ZeitgeistColombia on Vimeo.
Utopía. Un lugar en los Andes Suramericanos Hacer un mundo nuevo, hoy.
Finca Agroecológica Utopía 2/4 from ZeitgeistColombia on Vimeo.
La Finca Agroecológica Utopía es una experiencia de resistencia integral detrás de los cerros de Monserrate en los Andes colombianos. Utopía es un territorio de experiencias alternas donde cultivamos alimentos ancestrales, recuperamos las semillas nativas Andinas y brindamos a otros la oportunidad de experimentar nuestra forma de cultivar la agrobiodiversidad a través de la educación alternativa. Buscamos establecer alianzas con los sectores populares, campesinos y neocampesinos. Nuestros alimentos ancestrales y medicalimentos pueden comprarse vía internet (para despachos en Colombia).
Source: Frutosdeutopia
May 252010
UPDATE: We have created a project group on our Permaculture GROUPS free cooperative Mycological Response Teams group, along with start-up projects and tasks and documents and members. Please consider joining by Nicholas Roberts, Permaculture Cooperative
The Pertroleum Problem - Paul Stamets
I (Paul Stamets) proposed in 1994 that we have Mycological Response Teams (MRTs) in place to react to catastrophic events, from hurricanes to oil spills. by The Petroleum Problem: Paul Stamets
Paul Stamets of Fungi Perfecti, author Mycelium Running writes a response to the BP oil volcano in the Gulf , via Toby Hemenway author of Gaia’s Garden
PAUL STAMETS’ STATEMENT
ON MYCOREMEDIATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO OIL SPILL
Full Text: The Petroleum Problem – Paul Stamets (Copyright 2010)
The BP oil spill has inflicted enormous harm in the Gulf of Mexico and will continue to do so for months, if not decades, to come. I have many thoughts on this disaster. My first reaction is that when the skin of the Earth is punctured, bad things can happen.
Clearly, this disaster could and should have been prevented. Despite all their assurances of safety, BP and/or BP’s subcontractors, failed to ensure the functionality of the emergency equipment on the Deep Horizon rig. The oil industry claims that further regulation will handcuff them, but it is now obvious that more steps need to be taken to prevent a catastrophe like this from ever happening again.
How can we help?
Knowing that the extent of this disaster eclipses our mycological resources should not be a reason to not act.I proposed in 1994 that we have Mycological Response Teams (MRTs) in place to react to catastrophic events, from hurricanes to oil spills. We need to preposition composting and mycoremediation centers adjacent to population centers. We should set MRTs into motion, centralized in communities, which are actively involved in recycling, composting and permaculture—utilizing debris from natural or man-made calamities to generate enzymes and rebuild healthy local soils.
I see the urgent need to set up webinar-like, Internet-based modules of education to disseminate methods for mycoremediation training so people throughout the world can benefit from the knowledge we have gained through the past decade of research. Such hubs of learning could cross-educate others and build a body of knowledge that would be further perfected over time, benefiting from the successes and failures of those in different bioregions. The cumulative knowledge gained from a centralized data hub could emerge as a robust yet flexible platform that could help generations to come. Scientists, policy makers, and citizens would be empowered with practical mycoremediation tools for addressing environmental disasters.
Full Text: The Petroleum Problem – Paul Stamets (Copyright Paul Stamets 2010)
Image Source: Happy Healthy Balance
1. Paul Stamets on the Oil Spill (Toby Hemenway)
We just spent a wonderful week with Paul Stamets at his place in the Gulf Islands, and while we were there, the BP Crisis Management Team called to get his advice. In a way, that’s pretty encouraging. People here were wondering what Paul’s got to say about the mess, and after the call he put together a position paper on the spill and mycoremediation. It’s at
http://www.fungi.com/mycotech/petroleum_problem.html
Paul asks that this link go to anyone who can help.
Toby
http://patternliteracy.comhey Toby,
thanks for this…
great resource, couple of questions, observations, dont really expect you to have all the answers, though I think its worth putting it out there1. I wonder how we could actually use this information to develop a gaia permaculture response ?
2. how do we organise networks and teams of permaculture activists to use this knowledge on the ground/in-the-water now?
3. can we develop a faster and tighter network of expertise, i.e. the spill was weeks ago, could we make responses faster from experts such as Stamets and youself ? could we develop a network of experts to respond and anticipate such disasters, events etc and feed this organic geo-engineering into the policy mix, the activist strategies and techniques ?
4. could we develop a media team that makes video, education, howtos, implementation kits for such events as the spill ? could we set-up a fund-raising team to buy the spore, the medium, distribute and train activists in the field, measure results ?
5. did you discuss genetically engineered fungi, microbes etc ? are any on that list ?cheers
-N
Source: Email exchange on the Permaculture Ibiblio email list
Permaculture with a Mycological Twist, The Stametsian Model for a Synergistic Mycosphere
Reprinted from Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets, ©1994, all rights reserved.
Click here to for an interactive diagram outlining the application of fungi in permaculture.
Permaculture is a concept pioneered by Australian Bill Mollison and literally means “permanent agriculture”. His model of biological diversity and complementary agricultural practices promotes a sustainable environment via the interplay of natural ecosystems. Permaculture has gained a huge international following with the publication of his book Permaculture: A Practical Guide for a Sustainable Future. Permaculture has become the mainstay philosophy of the organic movement. Mollison’s vision, which borrows from Masanobu Fukuoka’s “One Straw Revolution”, intelligently combines the factors of site location, recycling of by-products from farming and forest activities, species diversity and biological succession.
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