Geoff Lawton: Establishing Self-Replicating Dryland Permaculture Demonstration Sites

Geoff Lawton presented at the Tenth International Permaculture Conference (IPC10 - www.ipcon.org) in Amman, Jordan, September 2011.

Geoff talked about the great need for training an army of permaculture warriors who can help set up self-replicating permaculture demonstration and education sites worldwide, and shared some of our efforts to help facilitate this.

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http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/04/geoff-lawton-the-importance-of-establis...

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[fiddlerize]

@tj21bem pdc's are incredibly cheap. its only 72hours min. go do one, then do the diploma. go for it!

[tj21bem]

@KingRyltar Where are you located in the Philippines? Do you have a farm or a demonstration site?I can't afford the fees for a PDC but I want to have hands-on training in permaculture. May I visit your place? I live in an apartment in Manila and I'm having fun growing chives, gynura and pechay in pots. I have a wormbin, too.

[ConfessionalInput]

(11:21-11:39) Stacking Functions...Brilliant!

[paulwheaton12]

how many people were at the conference?

[KingRyltar]

I am working toward getting my own permaculture system set up, then established here in the Philippines. Wanting to teach this system to the locals here, so that they can better feed themselves. The education system here, does not teach the people self sufficiency, even though it is not a welfare country. Sad how little the average person here knows, of growing their own food, not to mention laziness. Wish for younger family members to take care of the older ones, way to soon.

[Helioforge]

Geoff, you have done well : ) I am permanently establishing strawberries, garlic, onions, chives, and horseradish, attempting to build up their stocks and mix them up. The grapevines are digging in, as well as self-seeding lettuce, turnips, radishes, and tomatoes, and possibly others, I'm still new to all this and am just feeling it through : )