Alberta Permaculture
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We're learning how to make a difference!! Soil regeneration is our mandate and the soil foodweb is the magic carpet ride that will take us there. 4 Days of Dirty Tricks and Dirty Secrets with the Soil Doctor - this is the quintessential soi l program you have been looking for. Many of Doug's students have started up their own business in soil restoration and are now happily bringing back the microbes - as we said, there is much work to be done but the good news is, we have the technology.
Background From rather obscure and humble beginnings in Australia in the late 1970’s, permaculture has grown in just three decades into a vibrant world-wide movement. Permaculture founders Bill Mollison and David Holmgren observed the devastating effects that agriculture and human settlements were having on the ecology of their homeland and they asked the simple question, “How can we meet human needs by patterning human developments after natural systems, rather than destroying natural systems?” This basic quest continues to the growth and proliferation of permaculture practioners and communities around the globe today. Permaculture is at heart an integrative and eclectic movement. It draws deeply from traditional knowledge and from contemporary scientific understanding in an attempt to weave human culture back into the fabric of living eco-systems.
