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ceelove ([personal profile] ceelove) wrote2010-11-16 09:05 am
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permaculture in action: the Garden Pool

Permaculture: difficult to define, difficult even to describe, because in its essence it's about a paradigm shift, a different cultural perspective. After three days of the new class, I'm getting a sense of how to work it, but it's still hard to explain to others.

This, though, is a perfect example of permaculture in action - not that they use the word, just that this works with the principles. This family in New Mexico bought a house with "an old swimming pool without water but full of promise" and transformed it into a garden/chicken coop/tilapia pond, using vegetation generated within the system to clean the water and feed the chickens, manure as fertilizer, and so on. It is beautiful, inexpensive, and self-sustaining in less than a year.
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[identity profile] desiringsubject.livejournal.com 2010-11-16 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
That is very cool. I wonder how scalable it is, and then again I think about the articles I've read about crumbling suburbs because of foreclosures and the like and I enjoy the idea of building permaculture on the wreck of a failed suburban system.

[identity profile] veek.livejournal.com 2010-11-16 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never wanted a house with a pool so badly in my life.