Reflections on 50 years of Permaculture with David Holmgren
The Poor Prole’s Almanac
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The Cost of Experimentation
There's a reason traditional societies were conservative. This works. Don't mess with the recipe. When you've got rapidly changing conditions, totally novel conditions, people completely descaled. They're in a process of rediscovery and constant experimental innovation. So look at systems where that is happening in experimental permaculture farms. A whole lot of people are learning through those processes. Now, it's all sort of inefficient and people come along and they didn't know what someone did a year before and they go and bloody do it again. And it's incredibly inefficient. But that is actually the nature of this sort of thing.
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