Permaculture
The first time I ever saw permaculture was in the summer of 1988. I was there with a then good friend called Michael. Michael was a professor physics he said, but funny enough, he never talked about physics with me...I always wondered why...Maybe I thought I was to stupid to understand? Maybe he lied about being a professor or maybe Physics didn't interest him at all....We talked about life and philosophy a lot though...Music was a favourite subject to...
I really liked Michael, unfortunatly he liked me in a different way, and after I had to reject him in that way he became a rather obsessive stalker. A real shame, because he was a great guy. He was 10 years older than me and a great friend. Unfortunatly the physical attraction wasn't mutual, and it broke a deep friendship.
He knew the founder of the permaculture setlement, and also the owner of the land. She was an American miljonair, who let everyone who wanted to help with the project live on her land for free. It was a beautifull location in the Pyrenees in France.
Most people on the land were a bit to themselves. Really stange, because I saw this behaviour in squated communities to. It never made sence to me, because people who are against the system, should be very social. How is the group ever going to get bigger if they hate people and just want to sit in the mountains alone. I supose a lot of people who hate this society go and and join projects like this one, not because they want to change the system, just because they want to get away from it. That's a real shame because I don't believe that kind of people are going to change the system at all. Even knowing permaculture should just do that. Change the system and the way we're thinking.
I was happy to see this video on Youtube a couple of days ago when an American man and woman got a 500 dollars a day fine from their state because they had a vegetable garden in the front of their house. This just showed me again how much we are controled and how much the governement doesn't want us to live without money. And showing it to the neighbours! The had a pettition against the state and won, and now they run a charity were people who are to old or disabled can give their front garden to volunteers to make it into a vegetable garden. They also give people who want to do it themselves advice how to do it and how to grow your own food. in return they ask a percentage of the vegetables to give them to the poor. That's super! that's social! that's revolutionary!
Altogheter visiting the permaculture project was a great experience. there were really nice people living there to!
I loved the whole idea of it. From when I was 17 I had this wish to be able to live without money. I saw it as total freedom. I adored people who knew all the plants you can eat in the wild. For me traveling around and eating wild plants was a better future. Unfortunatly even knowing it was permaculture, they were having great problems getting the project strated because a lot of plants kept dying. I'm an intense gardener myself now for the last ten years, and I just learned that you have to know your soil and climate and garden. Maybe they were reading the right books but they were written for different soil and a different climate... I don't know
I don't know. All I know is that the people who lived there had a way of making some money to be able to live there and build up the project and i didn't. So I left, with Michael. I would have loved to stay a bit longer in the pre-pyrenees