Permaculture

What is Permaculture and why is it important for good stewardship?

Part one.  


This is the literal explanation of permaculture:

https://www.permaculturenews.org/what-is-permaculture/

Its importance is incumbent in the explanation above, however,  lets look at commercial agriculture for this lesson and why we need to evaluate why things need to change.

■ It requires large plots of land used for single crop production.

■ They till the soil which kill of hinder the beneficial microorganisms forming below the ground, that actually improve the quality of the plant being produced.  (See my later coming post on no till no dig)

■The heavy use agrichem products to address pestilence and disease, which causes pollution  to air, soil, and water.

• Even though some are labeled  as 'safe' for human and animals, the study on long term detriment  to our health just isn't there. However,  you can see it in the growing disease in the population (these chemicals are not the only factors, but large contributors).

• Remember that the organic label only means that less chems are used, not necessarily as friendly as we like to think.

• Then you have the destruction of 'weeds' native species that are often invaluable source of medicine and even food, or they would have assisted crop growth and soil replenishing.

• Prompts the creation of genetic  modification, which falls under the definition of sorcery, by perverting the nature of creation and unforeseen impact that it has, most often in the name of greed.  Remember not all 'science' is the same or moral.

■Government subsidies are intended to assist the farmers income, right?  Possibly, but there's a side to it that most people are unaware of. If you went to college and had a good economics teacher, they'd be honest with you.


• Subsidies create excessive waste, resulting in extra crops that are neither sold or given away, they are destroyed,  therefore using extra lands beyond crop bumpering, that could have been replenished or used for other purposes. We are talking tens millions of dollars worth.

• Government uses them to  control the market, as in price fixing.  Excess crops hirt the price they wish to fix the price to, and therefore pay the farmer to destroy the crop.

•  There are thousands of varieties of crops you never see in the store because the Government doesn't want it in the market.

• It is extremely rare to find a program that's approved to distribute this food to poor, homeless, or other impoverished nations.  


(* Sources: Economic text books, news articles, farmers themselves )

■Let us not forget the Dustbowl and plague level pestilence that it attracts, or even weather destruction of a crop because the location is concentrated.

The more we support this, the more destruction we bring upon ourselves.

• To destroy and waste food willingly is immoral and a sin. Especially when people are starving, or it could be repurposed.  It is bad enough that they take our tax dollars to do so, but if we are aware, we can at least take steps to reduce our  participation with this system by changing our consumer direction, pray about it, and help share the information with others.

• We invite disease and illness through the mass use of toxic chemicals and destroy sources of natural medicine, polinators, safe genetics, animals health, and our own health.

It is not Good Stewardship.

#Permaculture #Goodstwardship