SolarPunk Permaculture

The thoughts continue to pile up as I prepare for a new education endeavour. Let’s Get Dis. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/solarpunkpermaculture/message

Community I’m writing this text for Community. I’m writing this text for the Earth System. I’m writing this text for the gardeners, market growers, forest fillers, regen rangers, loggers, land clearers, guerillas and grand scale permaculturalist of our planet. Without community, we have nothing in common. In this tale of forest thoughts, we have relished in the joy and wonder

Preservation “All that yield. ALL OF THAT FOOOD! So much produce and beauty to preserve.” - I think to myself. There are no preservatives in the aisle of your syntropic agroforest. Not the store-bought shelf types anyway. This is good! We like it this way. A system in syntropy is a system of self-sorting. More or less preserving its own beauty over time, a carbon garden doesn't

Edible Carbon Gardens Ever since your run-in with the forest mage, you've been racking your brain tryna remember seeing any limes in the forest. After a few days, the thought gradually catches up with you - *There aren't usually that many edible species in a natural growth forest system. Not many you know of with limes anyway. In our day and age, fruits, along with nuts and timbers

Stratification Picture me this. - A garden full of umbrellas. Umbrellas are exactly how the forest mage wants you to think of trees. When you first stumble upon his buttress root, he looks at you with such an intensity, you wonder if he is of this time. His intensity also lets you know his forest observations are legit. The old guy brings forth a wisdom that you only get from watch

Nursery Nursery work is plant work. If you're working or playing w/ plants, you're in the nursery game. Now the genie is off your back and you've begun pushing solar panels into the sky via billions of little green blades. You look around at the iridescent green magic carpet beyond your toes. Seems bare, right. Seems like you need some plants to grow. Make it a little more… bushy

Seeds Seeds are like eggs. Hard outer shell with a proto-life form, armoured at its core. If the character traits for seeds were not realised in the manner that they are today, who knows what sort of genetic response the embryonic stage of plants would have evolved to protect itself. Either way… I’m stoked we have seeds as they are. Super interesting little spheres, oblongs, br

Groundcover The term ground cover is a funny one. When I first heard it I went straight to the idea of a carpet on the ground… not the natural type either. When you first meet the ground cover genie, he asks you, “What are you looking for?” Stunned and unsure about this blue cloud of vapor that has appeared in your yard, you and he eventually get to yarning about the various

Soil There is a good reason to start with the soil. Apart from it being the interface between seed and plant - The part you're most interested in if you're into plants. It's literally the engine of the garden. This is why you have to create good soil before anything else will happen. No soil, no seed germination. No soil, no nutrient or substrate for seeds to grow in. No soil, No g

Introduction What if I told you that your green waste bin was a waste of time? What If I told you that all the fertiliser you spent money on was unnecessary. What If told you that most people who call themselves gardeners are possibly better described as miners. Really!? You might say. Surely not miners… It's sadly true. Most of the methods used in conventional gardens are either