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The Problem is the Solution: but solutions can turn back into (the same old) problems
In the early years of promoting permaculture to food gardeners, Bill Mollison used to quip, “you don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency”. Mollison’s penchant for changing the perspective on a known problem, and identifying how it might represent an unacknowledged resource, reflects ecological thinking: identifying empty niches that can be filled to make gardens or any other (eco)system more resilient and productive. Often the perceived problem can be interpreted as a message from nature – nature’s first step in correcting imbalances.
Remembering Dan Palmer
In the global forest of permaculture and kindred networks, a giant has fallen. Dan Palmer is dead. Rather than old growth, he was in his prime at 47 with deep roots and spreading canopy.
Garden Agriculture: A revolution in efficient water use
First published as an (edited) opinion piece in Water Volume 32, No. 8 in December 2005, ‘Garden Agriculture: A revolution in efficient water use’ by David Holmgren discusses food futures in a post-fossil-fuel society. Full text available for download.