Social Permaculture: Language and its barriers to understanding

Permaculture Womens Guild

We, humans, invented language to name things to understand them by expanding on their meaning, but my proposal is that right now it hinders our understanding of things more than it helps. Particularly language that it’s either too formal or too loose in terms of meaning and understanding.

Botany for Everyone

Permaculture Womens Guild

Aside from the bean growing experiments in primary school and the occasional plant part identification ditto sheet, many of us have not had any formal botanical education in botany.