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If you’re really for the economy then you’re also for the environment

By Sherry Ackerman | September 30, 2014

stock trader at computer screen

I taught college logic for decades. Logical fallacies make me squirm. However, most people have errant ideas about logic. My undergraduate students always get huffy and insist that their "true premise" is logical. Logic examines process, prior to truth. A true conclusion can be arrived at if, and only if, the premises are true, and the process by which the argument is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: logical fallacy, permaculture, Vermont

The permaculture gardener: year-end wrap up

By Vicki Lipski | November 22, 2013

garden bench in fall

November has been quirky: it started warm, then got quite cold and windy, followed by falling leaves, brilliant blue skies, then heavy clouds, even snow. Did I leave anything out? Then, of course, there's the raking that accompanies the falling leaves. At this point I'd say I'm the only person in my neighborhood who still uses a rake to move leaves around; everyone else uses … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: comfrey, leaf blower, organic gardening, permaculture, vetch

Deserts, non-native species and the Second Genesis

By Erik Curren | September 18, 2013

una muerte anunciada

When Zen farmer Masanobu Fukuoka proposed that military bombers of his native Japan be used to drop balls made of seeds for hundreds of plant species over the world's desert areas in order to revegetate them, housewives and children around the country started sending Fukuoka donations of seeds. Though his dream of a vegetation air force has yet to become a reality, Fukuoka's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Buddhism, desertification, Larry Korn, Masanobu Fukuoka, natural farming, permaculture, rice, sustainable agriculture

Building a resilient homestead of your own

By Staff Reports | July 8, 2013

rice paddies

“Imagine inheriting a food forest,” farmer and author Ben Falk suggests in The Resilient Farm and Homestead: an Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach. And although Falk does eventually go on to describe exactly how one would go about creating a low-maintenance, edible forest garden, the idea he poses ignites a greater question – what does it mean to leave … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Ben Falk, homesteading, permaculture, systems theory, Vermont, Whole Systems Research Farm

The tomato incident

By Sherry Ackerman | September 19, 2012

Tomato Harvest

I was in my greenhouse the other day, watering some enormous tomato plants. These plants are massive — well over my head and still going strong. They're planted in a raised bed, with about thirty of them shoulder-to-shoulder in close quarters. It’s literally a tomato jungle. They're lush, full, heavy with tomatoes and the pride of any gardener. Enter my friend, who upon … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening, Transition Tagged With: gardening, permaculture, Transition

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