TweetToday is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally, Episode-802- Permaculture Misconception vs. Reality and was first published on Dec. 13th 2011.

 

The following are the original show notes from that episode.

The Forest is the Teacher, Not the End Goal – Photo Credit to Axel-D via Flickr

I keep quite a few things set up on Google New Alerts.  That is where you run a search for a term on Google News and ask them to send you an email when ever a given word or phrase pops up in the news.  So as you might imagine I do this for terms like “pandemic”, “economic collapse”, “natural disaster” and many others related to the preparedness industry.

I also have terms set up that are more on subjects connected to basic self sufficiency and homesteading.   As you might imagine I include the term “permacuture”.  The other day that alert sent me a link to an article called, “Traditional Farming in the Rain Forest”, it led to an article that was a scathing retort on permaculture calling it basically useless.

The author gets almost every single part wrong.  It wasn’t that we disagree mind you it was that his claims and assertions were simply 100% inaccurate.  Despite this it  has helped me to better understand many of the objections I hear about permaculture.  Today I plan to discuss them and try to answer some of these objections, hopefully with a now better understanding of what the objection is really all about.

Join me today as I discuss…

1 Prime Directive + 3 Ethics = Permaculture

Common Objections to Permaculture (none of which are based on reality)

The Rain Forest can’t feed as many people per acre as a farm

If we don’t do anything and let nature take its course we will starve

We need annual crops too not just perennials

Permaculture only produces weird things no one eats

Permaculture is limited to forest gardening

All permaculture amounts to is good organic gardening

Permaculture is all about growing food and plants

We can’t have productivity with out fertilizer and irrigation

We have to till soil to plant modern crop

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Traditional Farming in the Rain Forest – (Misguided article I read today on air)

Podcast I did with Paul Wheaton – Lessons From the Forest (Warning Paul’s standards for language are lower then mine on TSP, the f word does get used.)