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Permaculture Sydney Institute

Locality: Upper Macdonald

Phone: +61 2 9888 2575

Address: 1056 Upper Macdonald Rd, 2775 Upper Macdonald, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.permaculturesydneyinstitute.org

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25.01.2022 1927 advice. Good as gold even today.

21.01.2022 One of Bill Mollison’s original Permaculture principles. Thanks Brett Pritchard.

20.01.2022 There was a farmer who grew excellent quality wheat and every season he won the award for the best grown in his county. One year a reporter from the local newsp...aper interviewed the farmer and learned that each Spring the man shared his seed with his neighbors so that they too could plant it in their fields... How can you afford to share your best wheat seed with your neighbors when they are entering their crops in the competition with yours?" the reporter asked.... Why that's very simple, the farmer explained... "The wind picks up pollen from the developing wheat and carries it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior wheat, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of all the wheat, including mine. If I am to grow good wheat, I must help my neighbors grow good wheat"... The reporter realized how the farmer's explanation also applied to peoples' lives in the most fundamental way... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all... See more

19.01.2022 Food Forest Workshop 12th & 13th September What better way to celebrate spring than to do a Food Forest workshop and we still have a couple of places left. But be quick. The aim is to give you the tools and knowledge to create your own. Read all about it! https://permaculturesydneyinstitute.org//food-forest-work/

18.01.2022 One of the most powerful #permaculture concepts:The Problem is the SolutionThis concept helps us see the world through solutions, seeing problems as indicators of what needs fixing and how to fix it.

16.01.2022 Now here's a fun time! natural building in spring sunshine! If you haven't done a fun natural building project before or if you want to know more about earth building then this is a workshop for you. A long weekend in one of the most beautiful places near Sydney - October 3rd; 4th & 5th. An immersive experience of the head, heart and hands. See: https://permaculturesydneyinstitute.org//natural-building/

16.01.2022 How's that for efficient? Head over to Udemy and take Bills' Permaculture Design Course to learn more! https://www.udemy.com/course/permaculture-design-course/

12.01.2022 In Bill Mollisons permaculture DVD course sold at tagari.com Bill talks about his dream to create an abundant desert garden using plants from the deserts of t...he world. I want to build this garden in honor of Bill, but need help locating a source of seeds, or starts as well as the names of the desert berry plants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0IN4Vsi29s

10.01.2022 The difference between the two pictures is a tree or two trees in front of each house !! All of us have to participate in the greening of the desert!! ... !! !! #Greening_the_desert #permaculture #permaculture_design #permaculture_living #organic #compost #green #tree #forest #plant #farm #compost #worms #environment #nature #Jordan_valley #Geoff_lawton

08.01.2022 Couldn't agree more!

07.01.2022 This weeks quote from Bill!

06.01.2022 "Even coastal desert is susceptible to change if you adopt a forest approach." A great snapshot from our Udemy course. If you want to learn more from Bill then make sure you head on over to https://www.udemy.com/course/permaculture-design-course/

06.01.2022 Edible Plants - free downloads courtesy of Bruce R. French (Director, Food Plants International) More information can be found in the database: www.foodplantsin...ternational.com/plants Indochina or mainland SE Asia has 3,663 edible food plant species. Many of these have been overlooked or not given the study and attention that they deserve. *Growing Food in South East Asia - screen only 748.98 KB *Growing Food in South East Asia - ebook 1.81 MB *Growing Food in South East Asia - for printing 7.49 MB *Starchy Staple Foods - ebook 16.55 MB *Starchy Staple Foods - for printing 39.69 MB *Edible Syzygium fruit - ebook 5.29 MB *Edible Syzygium fruit - for printing 27.37 MB *Edible Barringtonia Nuts and Leaves 6.35 MB *Edible Canarium nuts and fruit - ebook 877.77 KB *Edible Canarium nuts and fruit - for printing 3.82 MB *Edible Terminalia fruit and nuts - ebook 1.74 MB *Edible Terminalia fruit and nuts 9.58 MB *God’s Resources 52.11 KB *Pandanus as food 7.71 MB www.foodplantsinternational.com/articles See more

05.01.2022 Bill Mollison: "It is true that most people I know today have never killed or grown their own food, never cut a mushroom in the field, nor stretched a rabbit’s ...neck. They have never felled a tree, never seen the red kino (blood sap) flow, nor stuck a pig. Yet they order, and eat, mushrooms and bacon, use wood and planks, paint with bristle brushes and read newspapers. Some, alas, call themselves deep ecologists. "This poses a real dilemma, often deeply felt by young adults; a sense of total powerlessness, or unworthiness. Sometimes, they escape and arrive distraught at farms or teaching centres in rural areas. Show me how to plant a tree, they ask, and in a few days are able to plant enough trees to last them for life (if all were to grow). They have often been ‘educated’ until 25-28 years of age, and never once in all that time have they prepared food or gathered the material for a meal, or killed, or planted. "Others, sensitive souls, almost give up eating when they realise that none of their food is familiar to them; they neither grew it, dug for it, transported it nor prepared and cooked it. They feel deeply unworthy of their lives. And in a sense they are; being terribly dependant on unknown hands for all their needs. As mass markets proliferate, and we urbanise more people annually, this sense of being orphaned from the real world increases. "The more privileged our children become, the more free choices they have, the more they anguish about their own fundamental ‘right to life’, let alone their right to reproduce. Can we wonder at the growing numbers of young people in the West, who are truly homeless, truly alienated, truly lost? People without practice in killing, reaping, or sowing feel unsafe indeed. "For a start, we need to teach basic skills, even to take students for that specific purpose. Such humane outlets are opposed by the ‘left’ (unions) and the ‘right’ (exploiters and commercial interests). The very idea of even limited self-reliance is anathema to all extant political parties. They see regional self-reliance as subversive; all governments, since Cambodia (and Kissinger’s ‘Think Tanks’){,} realise that constant de-stabilisation of the person, the family, the village, the region, and the means of production is in the short term profitable (loot being seized cheap or sold), and in the long term provides helpless markets for mass-produced goods, which being produced by robots and very large machines, needs less people every year. "Nations that devote themselves to technological efficiencies (Japan, Western Europe, parts of the USA) cannot exist without destabilised ’regions of influence’. They need to be able to buy cheap and sell dear, and they can only do so if they have subject populations on the grand scale. For even 5% of the world to have choices, 95% of people must be subjected to a lesser quality of life. The panacea is (as in all Indian films) that the hero or heroine might ‘win’, might kiss a frog or meet a Fairy Queen, might (via the great leveller, democracy) become a president, and have their own secret service. Bullshit. "All we get from kissing frogs is cold lips. Democracy is a glamorous illusion, costing the earth to maintain, and carefully preserved for very privileged groups of overused political parties (those who already have lots of money and power). You have to marry into privilege to get it, and if you get it by accident, you must compromise to exist. Less than 10% of us belong to political parties! "The ultimate end to a growth economy (we are all sold on that) is the same as an analogous growth, cancer. But for national economies, the victims are nature, soils, forests, people, water, quality of life. There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience. This is what I am about; what did you do in the war, daddy?"

05.01.2022 A personal message from Lisa Want to follow posts from Tagari Garden Farm, headquarters for Permaculture Institute, and Tagari Publications? Then head over to @...Tagarigardenfarm. The Lisa Mollison page will transition to a personal page. Thank you everyone for following our posts over the years. I am inspired by the growing devotion and enthusiasm for Permaculture design strategies. If your interest mirrors ours, now is the time to make our new page, @Tagarigardenfarm the go-to place where you'll see week by week posts pertaining to the expansion of Permaculture here and abroad, good news stories, stuff about Bill and the further development of Tagari Garden Farm (TGF). So hey head on over and give us like :-) We'll see you there!

03.01.2022 Maybe the best way to start is to simply ask each of you about the purpose of your life's work. MOLLISON: I'm a very simple person. All I want to do is regree...n the earth. That's what I work on all the time. JACKSON: For me, the purpose is to save soils, to get off the fossil fuel nipple, to quit introducing those chemicals into the environment that our tissues have not evolved within effect, to run agriculture on sunlight. FUKUOKA: Part of my purpose is to create a society where no one has to do anything. I beg your pardon? FUKUOKA: [Draws a picture of a man sleeping under a tree]: This is a natural farmer, sleeping in the sunshine. He does no fertilizing, no plowing, no weedingalmost no work. You could say I have been sleeping for 40 years, yet my yields are as high as those of the farmer who works all the time. Fukuoka-san, could you briefly explain the difference between your natural farming method and conventional farming? FUKUOKA: Natural and scientific farming are diametrically opposed. One seeks to approach closer to nature, the other to move farther away. Scientific research discriminates, breaks down, and analyzes, so by definition scientific knowledge is fragmented and incomplete. But nature is an indivisible whole. There is no starting point or destination, only an endless flux. To learn from nature, you must get rid of your preconceptions, your analyses, your intellectual distinctions. Make the inside of your head empty. Do not think anything. Become a foolish man. Be like the baby who sees everything at once, holistically. Then you can understand nature and instinctively understand what needs to be doneand what must not be donein order to work in harmony with its processes. One problem, though: To do natural farming, a person must know what unaltered nature is. People misunderstand nature by looking at the imitation nature people have created. You cannot be a natural farmer by abandoning nature after it has been altered. Instead, you have to carefully select seed and determine when, where, and how to grow it but only after first examining the land and the real nature of an area. Bill, do you think Fukuoka's type of natural farming is included in permaculture? MOLLISON: It's not only included but welcomed. Actually, until Fukuoka wrote The One-Straw Revolution, I had a mind set against all grain farming, so I didn't include any references to it in my first book, Permaculture One. Now I know that the approaches of both these other gentlemen fit naturally into the permaculture framework. Indeed, Fukuoka-san and I are basically the same person. Fragment of the triple interview, between the notable Masanobu Fukuoka, Wes Jackson and Bill Mollison. During the 2nd International Permaculture Conference, in the United States of America in 1987. https://www.motherearthnews.com//ecological-farming-zmaz87

03.01.2022 My habitation / community design favourites :) (y) "At the core... is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets & communit...ies. This idea... comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people". Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language The book values human rights such as freedom, & shows how architecture can enhance or reduce an individuals' sense of freedom "...we are saying that a centralized entrance, which funnels everyone in a building through it, has in its nature the trappings of control; while the pattern of many open stairs, leading off the public streets, direct to private doors, has in its nature the fact of independence, free comings & goings." A Pattern Language, p. 742 The book creates a new language, what the authors call a pattern language derived from timeless entities called patterns. As they write on page xxxv of the introduction, "All 253 patterns together form a language." Patterns describe a problem and then offer a solution. In doing so the authors intend to give ordinary people, not only professionals, a way to work with their neighbors to improve a town or neighborhood, design a house for themselves or work with colleagues to design an office, workshop or public building such as a school. It includes 253 patterns such as Community of 7000 (Pattern 12) given a treatment over several pages; page 71 states: "Individuals have no effective voice in any community of more than 5,000-10,000 persons." It is written as a set of problems and documented solutions. This is a form that a theoretical mathematician or computer scientist might call a generative grammar. Some patterns focus on materials, noting that some ancient systems, such as concrete, when adapted by modern technology, may become one of the best future materials: "We believe that ultra-lightweight concrete is one of the most fundamental bulk materials of the future." Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language, p. 958 Other patterns focus on life experiences such as the Street Cafe (Pattern 88): "The street cafe provides a unique setting, special to cities: a place where people can sit lazily, legitimately, be on view, and watch the world go by... Encourage local cafes to spring up in each neighborhood. Make them intimate places, with several rooms, open to a busy path, where people can sit with coffee or a drink and watch the world go by. Build the front of the cafe so that a set of tables stretch out of the cafe, right into the street." Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language, p. 437,439 When these patterns are taken together, the authors say, they begin to form a kind of language, each pattern forming a word or thought of a true language rather than being a prescriptive way to design or solve a problem. As the authors write on p xiii, "Each solution is stated in such a way that it gives the essential field of relationships needed to solve the problem, but in a very general and abstract wayso that you can solve the problem for yourself, in your own way, by adapting it to your preferences, and the local conditions at the place where you are making it." A notable value is that the architectural system consists only of timeless patterns tested in the real world and reviewed by multiple architects for beauty and practicality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language Like Aug 17, 2012 ... Indispensable with Mr Mollisons Permaculture Designers Manual... "In the early 1970s, it dawned on me that no one had ever applied design to agriculture. When I realized it, the hairs went up on the back of my neck. It was so strange. We'd had agriculture for 7,000 years, and we’d been losing for 7,000 years everything was turning into desert. So I wondered, can we build systems that obey ecological principles? We know what they are, we just never apply them. Ecologists never apply good ecology to their gardens. Architects never understand the transmission of heat in buildings. And physicists live in houses with demented energy systems. It’s curious that we never apply what we know to how we actually live." ~ Bill Mollison. Scott London interviews Bill Mollison: http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/mollison.html "Why does society, with all its schools, intelligence and resources keep falling into holes of its own making?" ~ Bill Mollison Short video, Bill Mollison on Permaculture: http://youtu.be/lyJLENVyNQQ?t=13s Photo: Two natural visionaries, Bill Mollison and Masanobu Fukuoka (pioneer of ‘natural farming’ in Japan), meet in the US in 1986." . > https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=568533916524816&id= < Permaculture A Designers Manual PDF -Chapter 4 ~ Pattern Understanding- http://archive.org/details/PermacultureADesignersManual_306 ...