Wildcat Garden Photos

Here are some photos at Wildcat Educational Center of the main garden after I rearranged some of the features including: rock terracing on contour, keyhole paths, and hugelkultured swales.

Step 1: Absorb Force

The Key to Movement

1) Absorb Force

2) Create Force

3) Accelerate

4) Endure

This video from reason.tv touches on the insanity of U.S. agricultural practices which skew the global economy as a whole and rewards corporate farms.  This Libertarian perspective identifies the problem, however still denoted remains the permacultural solution.

Market Pics

We have been going to the market in St. Andrews pretty frequently.  We have taken quite a few pictures to document the market, but only decided to post a few.  These vegetables were quite large!

Leta D. looking and talking with the moccasin and basket lady

Checking out local honey

Local, grass-fed Angus

 

Seed & Feed

 (Above) Leta D. at Sandi's Seed & Feed checking out the selection in front

(Above) Some of the organic products offered at Sandi's

Uniform and Background

This morning I found myself watching the mainstream news, as well as updates on youtube.  Today on the news I have taken notice to the backdrop and outfits worn by these diplomats of peace.  One shows green and lushness, while the other seems sterile and cold.  The wardrobe on top looks comfortable, festive, and inviting with what appears to be a wooden heart necklace.  The wardrobe on the bottom looks sharp and rigid and adorned with expensive bling.  My bias may seem obvious, but which picture do you think delivers the message of peace better?

Alas! Olas!

 Regeneration!

(Above) Boomerang 

Mama and Olas Emerald

Experimentation

 Tomatoes, peppers, & okra from the garden

Natural and organic dye setup

Squash in sandy soil

Marigolds used for the dye

The pictures above were taken from a temporary garden space where we fortunate enough to use.  Seed saving has started to take place here.  We have been wisely informed to take the best producers from the worst soils.  Why would some one want to grow purposely in poor soil?

Vagabonding Quote

     "As for the practical challenges of 'reentry' into your home life (moving in, finding a job, starting a routine), confront them all as new adventures.  Rediscover your work, and do it well.  Redeploy your simplicity, and make it pay out in free time.  Emulate the best of people who themselves were at home when you met them on your travels.  Pinpoint what you learned from them- hospitality, fun, reverence, integrity- and incorporate these things into your own life.  Integrate the deliberate pace and fresh perspective that made your travel experience so vivid, and allow for unstructured time in your day-to-day home schedule.  Don't let the vices you conquered on the road -fear, selfishness, vanity, prejudice, envy- creep back into your daily life.  Explore your hometown as if it were a foreign land, and take an interest in your neighbors as if they were exotic tribesman.  Keep things real, and keep on learning.  Be creative, and get into adventures.  Earn your freedom all over again and don't set limits.  Keep things simple, and let your spirit grow.
     But most of all, keep living your life in such a way that allows your dreams room to breathe.
     Because you never know when you'll feel the urge to hit the road again."

-Potts, Rolf

Vagabonding: An Uncommon

Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Lil' Village

The Little Village in St. Andrews has tiki-huts, garden & folk art, paintings, clothing, and smoothies.  Coming soon is Finn's Island Style Grub.  Yummy!  (Above) Casey radiates for the camera inside the cafe. 

Folk Art

Most likely you will have to click on the photo to read the writing on the painting.  This a modern folk painting and representation of permatarian philosophy.

Floridian inspired indigenous dreamland

Private Stroll

Species?

 

 (Top & Bottom-middle) Curb appeal in St. Andrews, (Top middle) Cosmic Bud, (Bottom) Leta D. and the owner of the property who so nicely allowed us to drop in and take a tour of his property.  He went through and identified each of his species individually and gave us a small history on his garden

Leta D. Art

 

(Above) Leta D. Art, sunny day dress in an organic farm patch 

Cowford. Ebro, FL

www.letadart.blogspot.com 

Define Permatarian

Permatarian (noun) - The word permatarian derives from two current schools of thought as a solutional balance point between seemingly polarized intellectual studies; the two being "Austrian economics" and "permaculture."  "Perma-" coined from permaculture and "-tarian" from libertarianism, although all libertarians are not necassarily complete Austrian economists. 

The grandfathers of this neo-philosophical viewpoint would be Bill Mollison (permaculture) and Ron Paul (Austrian economics).  Their successors and the fathers of this study would be, but are not limited to, Geoff Lawton (permaculture) and Tom Woods (Austrian economics).  

I, Garrison, am attempting to be the rational voice of comprimise between what I see to be as complementary and not conflicting theories.  There may be a more accurate and identifiable term to be used in the future, however our unidentified population has neither agreed or truly attempted an alternative label.  Some have requested liberculture.  The title remains trivial to the point.

The compatibility of these subjects were sparked by the book The God Theory by Bernard Haisch where these questions were focused on:

Can you have faith in Einstein, Darwin and God?
Can you have spirituality without religion?
Is there a grand purpose for your life?

Surf Photo

Here is a pic on Andrew Wardlow photography from August 10, 2011.

Overpopulation or Mis-spacialization?

Over-population OR Mis-spacialization?

It seems as though the THEORY of overpopulation continues to make its way through many media outlets...textbooks, the Internet, cable news, etc.  As I ride by the structures in my hometown I see the effects of urban sprawl continually rising...more traffic, more empty commercial buildings, more widespread and isolated businesses and residential units.  Jim Kuntsler refers to this period as the "greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the planet," and I can't really disagree with him on that.  To me, it appears as though we have more than enough space to fit the billions and counting people on this planet as well as feed us at the same time.  Monstrous parking lots, empty crossroads, and one story suburbia has failed in its design.

If there is to be a true economic recovery the people who are so-called in charge of everything will lose the return on their investment.  The debt ridden Ponzi-scheme must continue for big corporate businesses, federal agencies, and non-elected global bureaucracies or else the game is over and the curtains shall be pulled.  As we transfer into the new paradigm of truly living, we must realize that we are suffering from a systemic design problem.  One that starts with our monetary system.  As permaculturists we save energy by tackling the largest problems that we can foresee and heading downstream from there.

The "too big to fail" idiom should be seen as the most violent act ever perpetrated on the human population.  Overpopulation and "too big to fail"-ists go hand in hand.  The solution to overpopulation (misuse of space and time) and "too big to fail" (violent military expansion) remains an issue of design.  The attempts to eradicate the seed of reality will continue, but the energy and resources that it takes to do so is not only failing, but has almost failed to the point where even the largest claims of ignorance shall be futile.  As we end this war story, we transfer into a narrative of peace, understanding, and acceptance.

Man in Overalls

Nathan Ballentine of Tallahassee, FL doing an awesome job in the capitol. (www.maninoveralls.blogspot.com)

The first time I saw this guy on the side of the road I honked and yelled and gave a big thumbs up... ran into him at an organic soil building workshop years later.  His blog is awesome!

Medicine For the Peeps

Ben jammin' on this for a couple of weeks, thanks Phil Osophical

Permaculture in Action

Permaculture at work!

Summer Fun

Here are some pictures of Leta and I this summer... (Above) 4th of July we went to Grayton Beach to watch the fireworks and show off her watermelon belly, (Below) summer wind swell... small waves means small surfer, (Bottom) Super preggers Leta

Wildcat Creek

   

Above is a picture from the wild, edible mushroom and identification workshop.

Above shows the restroom.

Here, Leta and I are attending an edible mushroom workshop where we are learning to prepare and innoculate shitake logs.  This picture was taken a while ago, but I do remember we went for a nice swim in the crick before we left.