Farms of life

 

For you, our life rafts
You people who are reading this for the first time, you really have to listen, otherwise you too will fall into the hole.
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We are recruiting activators. These are the people, women or men, who take charge of the creation of the community and the farm. {Youtube}
L'autonomie
L'autonomie pour la future civilisation consiste en deux choses : Se passer de tout ce que la civilisation actuelle produit Produire ce dont les
L'autonomie
L'autonomie pour la future civilisation consiste en deux choses : Se passer de tout ce que la civilisation actuelle produit Produire ce dont les
Resilience
Resilience is the quality that defines the ability of a system to withstand attacks. For the farms of life, resilience will have to face the
Politics
Our relationship with the present civilization. The organization of the firm after collapse
The community
Build a community in a new civilization ... Abandoned everything that rotted our lives, but also produce everything that is essential to the
The fields
The search for land is an action that requires a united and voluntary community. This is the first major difficulty that must be overcome.

Permaculture

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"A science and an art that aims to develop ethical, sustainable and robust human ecosystems that blend harmoniously with nature" (S.Read)

It is therefore a global system design approach that allows:

To apprehend a system as a whole (holistic approach), to observe how the parts of a system are connected,
To repair faulty systems by applying principles derived from functional sustainable systems,
To observe and learn about natural systems in operation,
To organize and plan the integration of human beings into ecosystems without damaging them, by integrating an ethics that anticipates the lack of knowledge and understanding of the environment,
So to design, plan and realize human ecosystems sustainable, ecologically sustainable, socially equitable, economically viable.
It is a systemic and holistic design tool, Permaculture is based on 3 fundamental ethical bases:

Respect for the Earth,
Respect for man and peoples,
Create abundance and redistribute surpluses
This essential triptych is often represented by the flower with 3 petals:

 

Once these fundamentals are established, it is essential to perceive the extent of permaculture's application fields, and the infinite interactions and connections, which show that permaculture goes far beyond a simple new agricultural approach, which more is a form of "alternative gardening". The flower remains here the most relevant representation:

 

The spiral that originates in ethics and principles suggests the link between the petals - therefore the interrelations between the fields of application - and the evolutionary nature of the path, which starts from the individual and local level to reach the collective and global level. .

The principles that are, with the ethics, at the heart of this flower and any conception in permaculture are 12 in permaculture, ethics and principles are thus universal and inherent to any project, when the strategies, the techniques and the tools are contextual.

To go into more detail, let's take a look at what are David Holmgren's 12 principles of permaculture.

(Document taken from the site of the "University of Permaculture" to which the association "farms of life" is affiliated)