{"id":17718,"date":"2016-02-12T12:53:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17718"},"modified":"2016-02-12T12:53:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:53:56","slug":"voluntary-frugality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17718","title":{"rendered":"Voluntary Frugality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/One-of-Our-Homes-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/One-of-Our-Homes-1-300x130.jpg 300x, http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/One-of-Our-Homes-1.jpg 690x\" alt=\"One of Our Homes (1)\" width=\"690\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2016\/02\/12\/voluntary-frugality\/\" target=\"_blank\">VOLUNTARY FRUGALITY<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">This time, I\u2019ve moved beyond dipping in here and there and really started to read David Holmgren\u2019s Permaculture: Principles &amp; Pathways Beyond Sustainability, a book that goes in depth into realms of permaculture that I\u2019ve not fully explored in my time involved with the movement. And, while I\u2019m not yet through the book, I\u2019ve recently been struck by a bit of terminology he\u2019s used to describe one of his own permaculture-based lifestyle choices:\u00a0Voluntary frugality. I define it simply as living thoughtfully (and comfortably) within our means as opposed to always maximizing our possible take.<\/div>\n<p>Coincidentally, when I picked up the book, I\u2019d already begun writing on this very topic but had come to find myself stumped as to whether or not it was simply blowing smoke or something of relevant substance. Well, if Holmgren is anything, it\u2019s substance, so I renamed my article with his words, got back on the high horse, and continued with what I had to say, perhaps with a little more assurance and little more insight. The result is something that I hope is of value to other permaculturalists looking for more ethical and responsible pathways to happiness and relative abundance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26085 border\" src=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lemon-Cucumber-Harvest-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lemon-Cucumber-Harvest-1-300x225.jpg 300x, http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lemon-Cucumber-Harvest-1.jpg 640x\" alt=\"Vegetable Harvest, Photo by Emma Gallagher\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vegetable Harvest, Photo by Emma Gallagher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the better part of the last two and a half years, my wife Emma and I have been traveling around, volunteering on farms. At times, we\u2019ve earned meager salaries doing odd jobs that were offered to us, nothing we sought out or needed, per say, for just as often we\u2019ve simply exchanged about twenty hours of labor each week for room and board. Though the situation has not padded our bank accounts in any way whatsoever and, in fact, at this point our clothing is all a little more tattered over backs that are certainly more labored, the experience has still been more than worth it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOLUNTARY FRUGALITY This time, I\u2019ve moved beyond dipping in here and there and really started to read David Holmgren\u2019s Permaculture: Principles &amp; Pathways Beyond Sustainability, a book that goes in depth into realms of permaculture that I\u2019ve not fully explored in my time involved with the movement. And, while I\u2019m not yet through the book, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[161,622,8748,12357],"class_list":["post-17718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-consumerism","tag-permaculture","tag-permaculture-news","tag-voluntary-frugality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17720,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17718\/revisions\/17720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}