{"id":54986,"date":"2020-09-12T06:51:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T11:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54986"},"modified":"2020-09-12T06:51:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T11:51:24","slug":"why-permaculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54986","title":{"rendered":"Why Permaculture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Header-for-Why-Permaculture.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Header-for-Why-Permaculture.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Header-for-Why-Permaculture-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Header-for-Why-Permaculture-558x372.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Header-for-Why-Permaculture-272x182.jpg 272w\" alt=\"Why Permaculture\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><figcaption class=\"single-caption-text\">\u00a0Image by author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<header class=\"entry-header-outer\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/2020\/09\/03\/why-permaculture\/\">Why Permaculture?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p>It\u2019s been several years since I first stumbled upon permaculture, and several years minus a couple of months since I started doing my best to practice it. \u00a0Many people have a similar story, and my guess is, like me, they\u2019ve been asked dozens, possibly hundreds, of times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/2020\/02\/14\/yet-another-explanation-of-what-exactly-permaculture-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>what<\/em>\u00a0permaculture is<\/a>. \u00a0But, it\u2019s been a rarity\u2014if it has ever happened at all\u2014that someone asks me\u00a0<em>why<\/em>\u00a0permaculture. That might actually be more notable.<\/p>\n<p>When permaculture came into my life, my wife Emma and I were on a trip through Central and South America, hopping from farm to farm on work-trades to both stretch our budget while traveling and learn a bit about growing our own food. We cared about the environment, so we\u2019d guessed organic farms were the way to go. It only took a matter of weeks to begin hearing the term permaculture as byword. We borrowed some books and were soon engrossed in the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Our life has radically changed for the better. We\u2019ve become stronger people, physically and mentally. We\u2019ve become more capable, able to grow and preserve our own food and to build our own home, while consistently adding to the toolbox: forage wild mushrooms, make an earthen pizza oven, design a grey water system, start a social business\u2026 The world, from twenty feet away to the entire global construct, looks totally different, and while it may sometimes be scary, there always seems to be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/2019\/12\/11\/simple-permaculture-design-over-complex-technological-solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identifiable, simple steps for us to take<\/a>, right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Permaculture?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Geoff Lawton:  Surviving Collapse, Designing your Way to Abundance\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/01N-kBSdiZI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The grand appeal of permaculture over basic organic gardening is that it is so much more. We had aspirations of living on a piece of land and growing a lot of our own food, but there were so many more ambitions beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Image by author Why Permaculture? It\u2019s been several years since I first stumbled upon permaculture, and several years minus a couple of months since I started doing my best to practice it. \u00a0Many people have a similar story, and my guess is, like me, they\u2019ve been asked dozens, possibly hundreds, of times\u00a0what\u00a0permaculture is. \u00a0But, it\u2019s [&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":[4,7],"tags":[8463,1912,11500,5459,622,9358],"class_list":["post-54986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-food-growing","tag-food-production","tag-jonathon-engels","tag-organic-gardening","tag-permaculture","tag-permaculture-research-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54986","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=54986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54987,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54986\/revisions\/54987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}