{"id":22467,"date":"2017-01-13T14:44:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22467"},"modified":"2017-01-13T14:46:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:46:53","slug":"designing-a-lifestyle-not-just-a-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22467","title":{"rendered":"Designing a Lifestyle, Not Just a Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ladybug-Courtesy-of-Anderson-Mancini.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ladybug-Courtesy-of-Anderson-Mancini.jpg 690x, http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ladybug-Courtesy-of-Anderson-Mancini-300x130.jpg 300x\" alt=\"Ladybug (Courtesy of Anderson Mancini)\" width=\"690\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2017\/01\/13\/designing-lifestyle-not-just-garden\/\">DESIGNING A LIFESTYLE, NOT JUST A GARDEN<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">Implementing a permaculture design is much more than building a garden. It\u2019s also more than a house that utilizes passive solar energy or barrels to catch rooftop runoff. While these things often are incorporated into permaculture plans, the practice itself is getting at something much deeper. It\u2019s redesigning the way we live.<\/div>\n<p>Growing at least some of our own food is a step in a different direction from the mass agriculture, processed meals, and supermarket system. Designing our homes with attention to harmonizing with natural energy features is the beginning of moving away from our crippling dependence on fossil fuels. And, the list goes on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"g g-1\">\n<div class=\"g-single a-16\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_36049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"gofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/permaculturesunshinecoast.org\/\" data-track=\"MTYsMSwxLDYw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36049\" src=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BannerPRISC.jpg\" alt=\"Please visit our site sponsor, by clicking the above image.\" width=\"690\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Please visit our site sponsor, by clicking the above image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We don\u2019t design this way to meet any trendy environmental tableaus or even to save money but because, as permaculturalists, we are in search of that which is efficient and sustainable, those practices that might put back us into better harmony with the planet. To do that, more than any garden we grow, most of us have to seriously change the way we live.<\/p>\n<p>Adopting a new lifestyle is a major part of the design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY ARE WE GROWING FOOD?<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35598 border\" src=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Garden-Courtesy-of-Keith-Rowley.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Garden-Courtesy-of-Keith-Rowley.jpg 640x, http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Garden-Courtesy-of-Keith-Rowley-300x225.jpg 300x\" alt=\"Garden (Courtesy of Keith Rowley)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yugen\/3874838229\/\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Keith Rowley<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We should be growing food because the way we produce it, as a society, doesn\u2019t work for us or for the planet, and if we don\u2019t fundamentally change this approach to supplying our needs, the results may be the end of us. Processed and packaged versions of just a few crops isn\u2019t providing the nutrients we need, and that\u2019s not taking care of ourselves (People Care). Monocultures, feedlots, and felled forests are scarring the planet with chemicals and destructive concentrations of waste, and that\u2019s not taking care of the world (Earth Care). Then, we continually degrade new swaths of land once we\u2019ve exhausted the ones we are using, and that\u2019s taking more than is necessary (Return of Surplus).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DESIGNING A LIFESTYLE, NOT JUST A GARDEN Implementing a permaculture design is much more than building a garden. It\u2019s also more than a house that utilizes passive solar energy or barrels to catch rooftop runoff. While these things often are incorporated into permaculture plans, the practice itself is getting at something much deeper. 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