Transcript Permaculture - UCO
Permaculture
We can live in a more natural and environmentally friendly way and significantly improve our quality of life.
"Permaculture, originally
'Permanent Agriculture',
is often viewed as a set of gardening techniques, but it has in fact developed into a whole design philosophy, and for some people a philosophy for life.
Permaculture encourages us to be resourceful and self-reliant.
“THOUGH THE PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD ARE INCREASINGLY MORE COMPLEX, THE SOLUTIONS REMAIN EMBARRASSINGLY SIMPLE....” Bill Mollison, co-founder of the world-wide permaculture movement
Its central theme is the creation of human systems which provide for human needs, but using many natural elements and drawing inspiration from natural ecosystems. Its goals and priorities coincide with what many people see as the core requirements for sustainability."
Where Can Permaculture Work?
• City flats, yards and window boxes • Suburban and country houses/garden • Allotments and smallholdings • Countryside and conservation areas • Commercial and industrial premises • Educational establishments • Waste ground • Community spaces • Farms and estates
Located near Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Permaculture Institute was founded in 1997 as the sister organization to the Permaculture Institute of Australia. It came on the footsteps of the Permaculture Drylands Institute, formerly the leading permaculture educational institution in the US. Our mission is to promote sustainable living skills through education, networking and demonstration projects. We facilitate networking among permaculture groups and projects in NM/Southwestern region and beyond.
Workshops
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Permaculture Design Course in Colorado: Sustainable Settings, Carbondale Dates:
June 15-29, 2007
Format:
Two-weeks residential intensive training
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Copper Canyon Sustainability Series, Nogal Ranch, Mexico Dates:
August 18 - September 7 (Extended Training in Permaculture Design, Watershed Restoration, Food Forests and Gardens) and September 10 September 28 (Natural Building/Appropriate Technology Practicum)
Format:
Two programs, designed to be taken as a series or separately, in residence.
A magazine that features practical thought provoking articles on organic gardening, sustainable agriculture, agroforestry, climate change, peak oil, eco villages, alternative technology, eco architecture, personal and community development and much more.
Top 20 Plants (Edible & Medicinal)
• • • • • • • • • Allium Species The Perennial Onions Allium ursinum Wild Garlic Amelanchier Alnifolia Juneberries Apios Americana The American Groundnut Arbutus unedo The Strawberry Tree Asclepias species The Milkweeds Caragana Aborescens The Siberian Pea Tree Cornus Kousa Japanese Dogwood Crataegus Species The Hawthorns
• • • • • • • • • Dioscorea batatas The Hardy Yam Elaeagnus x ebbingei A Plant for all Reasons Ginkgo biloba The Maidenhair Tree Hemerocallis Species The Daylilies Hippophae salicifolia Willow-leaved Sea Buckthorn Malva Moschata Musk Mallow - Great for Salads Oxalis deppei Iron Cross Plant Sassafras Albidum Viola Odorata Sweet Violet
Grow Your Own Food
Growing vegetables, herbs and flowers for use and sale. Trading seeds.
Learning about and collecting edible wild plants.
Preserving and storing food including canning or drying food
Making and using a solar oven.
Think Small
Heat with the Sun
Utilize Rain Water
Share With Others. Participate in a Community Market Edmond Farmers Market
First & Littler, Edmond, Mike Clark at 359.4629.
Welcome to the Oklahoma Food Cooperative!
We're a grassroots network uniting Oklahoma folks interested in sustainability produced, locally grown food. We bring the farmer's market to your front door. Our goal is a business that is environmentally sustainable, economically viable, and socially just. Robert Waldrop, Oklahoma Food Cooperative President
Taking surplus clothing to thrift shops. Using thrift shop items.
Sustainable Housing
Sharing of rides and car-pooling on errands.
Walking or riding a bicycle for errands and exercise
Trading other services and talents
Drying wash on clothes line.
Repairing house and household items. Repairing 'found' discards. Recycling of items not needed.
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The value of recycling building materials, or anything else for that matter, is that the cost is likely to be a fraction of the same thing in the "new" category. The savings can be substantial. Take the case of Lonny Roth's house that he is building in our neighborhood. It is a very nice looking house of about 1,200 square feet. Lonny tells me that about three quarters of all the materials used to build the house have been recycled. He estimates that the cost of the house when it is finished will be right around $20,000. About half of the materials for Lonny's house were pulled from dumpsters at construction sites. Much of the framing and sheathing materials were found this way. Also many of the doors, windows, sinks, plumbing parts and appliances were used.
Here old metal wagon wheels are used to create circular supports for windows.
Use Local Materials
In almost all localities, nature has provided us with some wonderful materials to build with. Because these materials require little processing or transporting, the environmental and economic costs are low. Some are renewable resources (like trees and straw), and some may be so abundant that their supply seems almost inexhaustible (like rocks and sand). One of the beauties of building with local materials is that they seem to fit well with the feeling of the place, naturally.