{"id":54786,"date":"2020-08-22T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54786"},"modified":"2020-08-22T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T18:31:02","slug":"my-permaculture-design-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54786","title":{"rendered":"My Permaculture Design Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My Permaculture Design Mistakes<\/a><\/h3>\n

Wrong Turns in the Right Direction<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Like anyone, I find it much more inspiring to talk about gardening and building successes. That rhubarb we planted last year has gone nuts! \u00a0Emma and I have probably foraged 15 kilos of chanterelle mushrooms so far this summer, so much that we are having to give them away despite the fact that I eat mushrooms on toast just about every morning (unless I\u2019m having tofu scramble with chanterelles). We just passed our framing inspection for the cabin we are building! Good things are happening, no doubt, but life isn\u2019t always beautifully blooming roses.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In short, in permaculture, we are all fallible (even the fabled Geoff Lawton, as you will learn by the end of this). Of course, for the most part, we share our successes, and for the most part, that\u2019s also what we want to read about: successes. We want to know what works! But, like any good craft, sometimes it\u2019s the lessons that we learn from our slip-ups that make us wiser in the long-run. At least, at the beginning of this list, that is what I\u2019m going to say. Believe me, this is no exhaustive catalogue of minuscule catastrophes but rather a brief accounting of the ones that are currently unfixed and on my mind.<\/p>\n

I want to share them because sometimes, when things go awry, we feel like no one else struggles, as if all other permaculturalists are out there making the right moves, relaxed supine atop a stack of butternut squash. Well, that just isn\u2019t so.\u00a0To grow a garden, to build a home, to manage water, to raise animals, to live off-grid<\/a>\u2026 they are all replete with repairs, reconfigurations, and re-imagining. Part of the process is often not getting it right. At least, that\u2019s what I like to tell myself, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019m alone in that. Here goes:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Photos Courtesy of Emma Gallagher My Permaculture Design Mistakes Wrong Turns in the Right Direction Like anyone, I find it much more inspiring to talk about gardening and building successes. That rhubarb we planted last year has gone nuts! \u00a0Emma and I have probably foraged 15 kilos of chanterelle mushrooms so far this summer, so […]<\/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":[1912,11500,30216,9358],"class_list":["post-54786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food-production","tag-jonathon-engels","tag-mistakes","tag-permaculture-research-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54786","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=54786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54787,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54786\/revisions\/54787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}