Permaculture's Dogma Problem
Not only does Rafter Sass Ferguson have a neat beard, he also has some serious smarts...and he's not afraid to say it like he sees it. This blog post of his opens up some big issues for permaculture researchers, and the permaculture community in general.
Not too long ago, two of our most internationally renowned permaculture
teachers/consultants had some vigorous disagreement on social media.
Hordes of commenters weighed in on either or neither side. The explicit
topic of the disagreement was the value of contour ditches – known in
permaculture as ‘swales’ – for managing water in the landscape.... I was struck most by what wasn’t
discussed. The unspoken limits of the discussion highlighted how much
permaculture has to learn from agroecology – in particular, how to learn
like agroecology. This debate over water harvesting serves as a window onto issues that run through the whole of permaculture. Read the rest
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