Permaculture guilds are an extension of a common gardening technique called companion planting. Companion planting is used in home gardening to increase the yield a certain area produces in a season. While permaculture guilds are almost exclusively used in permaculture, companion planting is more widespread.
In the past 50 years more resources have been consumed than in the entire history of the human race-that is, over the preceding 200,000 years. Consumerism, economic rationalism and trade for trade's sake have run riot in a world environment conceding and acquiescing to corporate aspirations and global market manipulations, at the expense of the environment and social justice, particularly over this past decade since the mid-nineties.
The takeaway from this article should be this: just observe. Observe the nature. Take what works there and the use it in your garden. You'll be pleasantly surprised with results. Permaculture aims to create stable and fruitful systems that provide for the needs of humans, integrating the land with those who live on it, using proven technologies for food, energy, shelter and infrastructure.
You have birds, bugs, beetles, reptiles, worms,... all living in harmony. Now take a corn field. Aside from the single crop of corn that is there during the growing season, that land is dead. There are no worms, birds, bugs there. After a few years, the birds don't come even after plowing. That's because the soil is completely dead. The only reason the corn grows there are the synthetic fertilizers that are applied by... yes, more machines. Now, what permaculture does is it follows nature's example.
While there are many small things we can do immediately through behavioural adjustments and becoming more aware consumers, the paradigm shift to become an effective agent of change demands a degree of knowledge, skills, and practical ecological savvy that has been seriously neglected in our education systems. There is so much to learn, and little time to waste.
In the past 50 years more resources have been consumed than in the entire history of the human race-that is, over the preceding 200,000 years. Consumerism, economic rationalism and trade for trade's sake have run riot in a world environment conceding and acquiescing to corporate aspirations and global market manipulations, at the expense of the environment and social justice, particularly over this past decade since the mid-nineties.
The takeaway from this article should be this: just observe. Observe the nature. Take what works there and the use it in your garden. You'll be pleasantly surprised with results. Permaculture aims to create stable and fruitful systems that provide for the needs of humans, integrating the land with those who live on it, using proven technologies for food, energy, shelter and infrastructure.
You have birds, bugs, beetles, reptiles, worms,... all living in harmony. Now take a corn field. Aside from the single crop of corn that is there during the growing season, that land is dead. There are no worms, birds, bugs there. After a few years, the birds don't come even after plowing. That's because the soil is completely dead. The only reason the corn grows there are the synthetic fertilizers that are applied by... yes, more machines. Now, what permaculture does is it follows nature's example.
While there are many small things we can do immediately through behavioural adjustments and becoming more aware consumers, the paradigm shift to become an effective agent of change demands a degree of knowledge, skills, and practical ecological savvy that has been seriously neglected in our education systems. There is so much to learn, and little time to waste.
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