Breaking Down and Building Up

Permaculture Womens Guild

By Gisa Seeholzer Building a community through growing something sustainable can be a challenge. Over the past few months I have learned more and grown more than I could have imagined. I was pushed into directions that challenged me in both good ways and bad ways. All the while I was reading about permaculture. I started out taking a course that was meant to be taught to kids in kindergarten all the way through high school. I started to learn about connection between people, the earth, and the benefits and importance of sharing the surplus that we harvest. Like any…

How to Compost Your Pain

Permaculture Womens Guild

By Dido Dunlop (part of a talk at our New Zealand Permaculture gathering 2015, exploring how we can apply Nature’s ecosystems model to human relationships, to create a resilient way to live; it’s a contribution to Social Permaculture) What do we do with emotions that feel bad? How do we turn our miseries into rich nourishing resources, into love and constructive action? When we try to throw things out that smell bad, they don’t go away. That applies to emotions as much as food scraps and poo. We put our ‘waste’ in the compost heap so as not to waste…