Everything worth doing takes time. All the things that are one offs, happen occasionally, or are instant gratification are fleeting. They will not last. Unfortunately, this is the focus of our culture. It might take 10 years to be able to even start implementing your permaculture design and then how many years until perennials …
Author Archives: Milton
Patience vs. Being Frantic
I have a theory. Anything that is important, anything that creates lasting change in the world takes time, repetition, a practice to obtain. It requires patience; an oak takes time to grow. Conversely, anything done frantically, any silver bullet, including buying solutions, is equivalent or worse than doing nothing at all. If that’s true, even …
Scale of Permanence Revised
I’ve upgraded the scale of permanence diagram. It’s a little more readable and a little more interesting to look at. See the tiny cows? You can check out my previous post on the scale of permanence here. I continue to see folks start their designs somewhere in the middle of the scale, being concerned with …
Advice for the New Permaculturist
I’ve herd people ask similar questions. Basically they amount to “I have dreams of permaculture, how do I pursue them?” The perennial permaculture advice is “it depends”. Every person’s journey is different. Take a breath. Then start looking around you. What is possible now? How can you start investing in yourself and your projects? What …
Meet Vulcan
Meet Vulcan, a katahdin dorper mix sheep. When he grows up he’ll be the ram of his flock. I’m hoping he’ll add a nice bit of genetic diversity, keep the future generations healthy.
A Glimpse of the Future
What will life be like in the future? We will mostly live by what is around us. Things that come from afar will be special. Tools, knives and raw materials. Probably some books and musical instruments. Food, shelter, energy, waste, water, would all be taken care of locally. That is my vision. One way or …
Heirarchy
Hierarchy is a type of control. It disrupts the natural order of things, usually using large quantities of energy to do so, placing the beings that are the object of control in a state of stress, which denies one or more of their needs, products, behaviors, or intrinsic characteristics, so that their usual outcomes accrue …
8 Forms of Capital & Pollution
8 forms of capital, originally published on Appleseed Permaculture and written by Ethan Roland & Gregory Landua in 2011, has become a core permaculture methodology. As an analytical tool it can help us map flows and exchanges between ourselves and the rest of the world. It broadens our focus from money alone, helping us see …
8 Forms of Capital & Pollution
8 forms of capital, originally published on Appleseed Permaculture and written by Ethan Roland & Gregory Landua in 2011, has become a core permaculture methodology. As an analytical tool it can help us map flows and exchanges between ourselves and the rest of the world. It broadens our focus from money alone, helping us see …
Rocket Stove Workshop 2021
Back when the pandemic was young I had planned to lead a rocket stove workshop at Symbiosis Ranch. Things being what they were it didn’t end up happening. Fortunately, the workshop is back on the schedule, for the weekend of September 18th & 19th. We’ll be putting a batch box rocket stove mass heater in …