Class 3 notes by Ron S.
A lot of information today. First, Holmgren’s Principles. Ok, it’s been a while since I was in school, but I think I need flash cards to randomly look at during my days. I think that I may try and pick the definitions I can assimilate best from each of the different principles lists. Mollison’s vs. Holmgren’s. I also need to get my printer up and running so I can print out the info that we are getting from the class. I am already feeling a little bit overwhelmed. I need to keep looking at this info and find some ways to assimilate it. It’s time to start looking at the back yard garden.
We were introduced to Jon Young’s core routines for nature awareness. I think I am split down the middle as to some of them I actively do and understand firsthand; sit spot, journaling, wandering, curiosity for example. The other ones I believe I at least understand intellectually. Once again, how to bring these routines into practice….?
We spent a good amount of time on nature’s patterns. It felt like I didn’t know how to connect this information somehow. I haven’t gotten too deep into Gaia’s Garden so maybe time to delve a bit deeper, maybe find some of the connections to this informatioin that is coming at me.
Thanks for the great day to walk to the community house that we went to. Great people. Super gracious. The scale of permaculture site analysis kind of brought a lot of what we have been talking about home. I am going to get started on my own backyard. I do want to plant stuff this year but I am also going to try and watch the property overthe course of the year to gather what information that I can. Hopefully, by the time Ive gathered up this info I will know what to do with it. I am very interested in mapping site analysis on a social permaculture model as well. Now I have to figure out where. A great day…again.
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