I don't want to get all caught up in the details of that design concept, but I like the basic shape of wide\squeeze\widen and the immerse\emerge. For me the better metaphor is breathing. Bring it all in, pause, let it out into the world, pause, repeat. Like breathing, the length of each part of the cycle can be changed for different purposes. I like a 5/1.5/7/1.5 seconds cycle for chilling out but not getting too sleepy, slightly longer exhale to boost my parasympathetic response since I know I am sympathetic dominant from using HRV biofeedback. But if I'm exercising my breathing rate increases and the pauses go away. In the garden, you might need more contemplation at first, more inhale and hold. But as the design matures the exhale will increase, the exhale of yield and time spent gardening. All sorts of ways to equate breathing with the garden and the cycle of the seasons and the rise and fall of our lives and eventual cycling back into life engine for new life to be made from. I hope to have a tasty apple tree planted on my body, I want it to grow strong off the minerals in my bones.
Yeah, I used to teach breathing techniques to clients for sympathetic nervous system regulation all the time. So I agree! In fact, it IS a breathing process. The tree form, the torus field, the breathe, i believe are all ways of visualizing a breathe cycle at a higher order of pattern. The tree breathes through the stomata, but the tree shape is a slow explosion, as Bill Mollison called it, which is a really long breath. So I agree!
I've been passionately interested in permaculture since reading Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemmenway in 2012. Been playing with the concepts on other people's land since then and working as a hand tools decorative gardener since 2014. I'm on the cheap human power scale of things, learned so much from Sean of Edible Acres over the years. Masanobu Fukuoka, Bhaskar Save, Ruth Stout, Jim Kovaleski, and Charles Dowding are my primary influences. Now I'm 43 and my restlessness is calming down and I'm going to patiently keep working towards getting my own patch of land to manage. Mostly interested in growing trees, primarily nut trees like hazelnut and walnut, but fruit as well, like seaberries. As many types of berries as possible, they're the best fruit for nutrient density and blood sugar response. I love making decorative gardens in a circle around trees, so I will do the same thing with food plants around my food trees. I'll let those trees get big, but will also have various coppice on the land, hazel and willow for sure. I want materials for basketry, trellises, sapling shelters, and firewood. Gotta play with weaving living willow shelters from the cuttings, that's too cool. I want it to look wild but be highly intentional and full of food and other resources. If there is a major collapse lots of people will expand out from the cities and some of them will steal along the way. I figure hide stuff in buried metal trash can caches and growing food in a wild aesthetic. Hazelnuts don't look like anything if you don't know them and the nuts hide under the leaves. Winter squash, potatoes, and cane berries all grow well in a dense scrub arrangement. I've seen volunteer potatoes grow with apple mint and produce spuds in the dense web of mint roots, hard to harvest though. I want to get a lot of groundnut going too, let it's vineyness cover lots of areas so that a perennial starch source is slowly building up over time. Same with sunchokes. If there's a pond or marsh I'd experiment with willow chinampas, floating gardens, and growing duckweed. Hmm, I'd better make sure there's a wetland, I really want to do all of that. Apparently that is the most productive food system ever made. I guess I can still play with water systems with a micro pond container garden if need be. So much stuff to try out!
Dang what a great comment! Im very similar to you in so far as wanting to try this and that for years, and have been doing so. Then slowing down a little bit as i entered my 40's. Now I am working to design more beneficial landscapes for others to fund my own trial and error on my own land. It's a lifetime of fun, work, yummy food, and supporting natural systems! I'd like to invite you to our very own permaculture social media site, the PcX (Permacultrue Crossing). Join for free, but specifically, you should post the comment again there, you might get more engagement and meet some other permaculture nerds trying this and that on their land and projects. Here's the link: community.pcx.earth/share/viUZHpofCwteZOcY? Hope to see you there. Best of luck on you pursuits!
I don't want to get all caught up in the details of that design concept, but I like the basic shape of wide\squeeze\widen and the immerse\emerge. For me the better metaphor is breathing. Bring it all in, pause, let it out into the world, pause, repeat.
Like breathing, the length of each part of the cycle can be changed for different purposes. I like a 5/1.5/7/1.5 seconds cycle for chilling out but not getting too sleepy, slightly longer exhale to boost my parasympathetic response since I know I am sympathetic dominant from using HRV biofeedback. But if I'm exercising my breathing rate increases and the pauses go away.
In the garden, you might need more contemplation at first, more inhale and hold. But as the design matures the exhale will increase, the exhale of yield and time spent gardening. All sorts of ways to equate breathing with the garden and the cycle of the seasons and the rise and fall of our lives and eventual cycling back into life engine for new life to be made from. I hope to have a tasty apple tree planted on my body, I want it to grow strong off the minerals in my bones.
Yeah, I used to teach breathing techniques to clients for sympathetic nervous system regulation all the time. So I agree! In fact, it IS a breathing process. The tree form, the torus field, the breathe, i believe are all ways of visualizing a breathe cycle at a higher order of pattern. The tree breathes through the stomata, but the tree shape is a slow explosion, as Bill Mollison called it, which is a really long breath. So I agree!
@@permaculture_institute_na Those are some tasty concepts :)
I've been passionately interested in permaculture since reading Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemmenway in 2012. Been playing with the concepts on other people's land since then and working as a hand tools decorative gardener since 2014. I'm on the cheap human power scale of things, learned so much from Sean of Edible Acres over the years. Masanobu Fukuoka, Bhaskar Save, Ruth Stout, Jim Kovaleski, and Charles Dowding are my primary influences.
Now I'm 43 and my restlessness is calming down and I'm going to patiently keep working towards getting my own patch of land to manage. Mostly interested in growing trees, primarily nut trees like hazelnut and walnut, but fruit as well, like seaberries. As many types of berries as possible, they're the best fruit for nutrient density and blood sugar response.
I love making decorative gardens in a circle around trees, so I will do the same thing with food plants around my food trees. I'll let those trees get big, but will also have various coppice on the land, hazel and willow for sure. I want materials for basketry, trellises, sapling shelters, and firewood. Gotta play with weaving living willow shelters from the cuttings, that's too cool.
I want it to look wild but be highly intentional and full of food and other resources. If there is a major collapse lots of people will expand out from the cities and some of them will steal along the way. I figure hide stuff in buried metal trash can caches and growing food in a wild aesthetic. Hazelnuts don't look like anything if you don't know them and the nuts hide under the leaves. Winter squash, potatoes, and cane berries all grow well in a dense scrub arrangement. I've seen volunteer potatoes grow with apple mint and produce spuds in the dense web of mint roots, hard to harvest though. I want to get a lot of groundnut going too, let it's vineyness cover lots of areas so that a perennial starch source is slowly building up over time. Same with sunchokes.
If there's a pond or marsh I'd experiment with willow chinampas, floating gardens, and growing duckweed. Hmm, I'd better make sure there's a wetland, I really want to do all of that. Apparently that is the most productive food system ever made. I guess I can still play with water systems with a micro pond container garden if need be. So much stuff to try out!
Dang what a great comment! Im very similar to you in so far as wanting to try this and that for years, and have been doing so. Then slowing down a little bit as i entered my 40's. Now I am working to design more beneficial landscapes for others to fund my own trial and error on my own land. It's a lifetime of fun, work, yummy food, and supporting natural systems!
I'd like to invite you to our very own permaculture social media site, the PcX (Permacultrue Crossing). Join for free, but specifically, you should post the comment again there, you might get more engagement and meet some other permaculture nerds trying this and that on their land and projects. Here's the link: community.pcx.earth/share/viUZHpofCwteZOcY?
Hope to see you there. Best of luck on you pursuits!