A good article about one of my very favorite subjects, permaculture was published in the New York Times: Permaculture Emerges From the Underground – NYTimes.com. The author of the article took one of Wayne Weiseman‘s PDC classes. Wayne was just in Fort Worth a few weeks ago, and I’m mad at myself for not being able to meet him in person. Anyway, here are some of my favorite quotes from the article:
permaculture is a growing and influential movement that runs deep beneath sustainable farming and urban food gardening
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pemaculture has no membership rolls or census-takers. By intention, “it has been, for all of the years I’ve been involved, a pretty decentralized movement,” Mr. Pittman said.
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Permaculture landscapes, which mimic the ecology of the area, are meant to be vertical, dense and self-perpetuating. Once the work of the original planting is done, Mr. Mollison jokes in one of his videos, “the designer turns into the recliner.”
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Mr. Rabkin said, “I like to say that the telephone attracts beneficial wildlife — our Amish neighbors — which is what permaculture tells us to do.”
