Reflections on 50 years of Permaculture with David Holmgren
The Poor Prole’s Almanac
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The Origins of Permaculture
The use of indigenous species, the valuing of local indigenous biodiversity was actually their in permaculture from the beginning. But what happened around the same time is a more extreme view of that started to identify permaculture even at that time as a huge threat to nature because it was promoting species that might be weeds. So understanding that re-evaluating the common, the things that are everywhere,. the things that grow by themselves, the indigenous things that the pioneers were cutting down. I know these things have value. That was actually central to permaculture.
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