Session 17: Small and slow solutions
Term 3: Design projects
PDC part 17 will be on April 25th
Meeting ID: 848 8472 4089
Academy class room open
16.30 – 19.30 BST
18.30-20.30 EAT
+2 hours Uganda/ Kenya/ Ethiopia
+1 hours Rwanda
It is UK summer time now, and that means the clocks changed by plus one hour.
So the start time in Uganda/ Kenya/ Ethiopia is now 6.30 PM and will be for the remainder of the PDC
Resources
First translated in 1978 this classic book details the work of a pioneering Japanese rice farmer Masanobu Fukuoka. (3.3 mb). Fukuoka is the father of ‘do nothing’ farm, a natural approach that in many ways inspired early permaculture pioneers.
“Almost everyone thinks that “nature” is a good thing, but few can grasp the
difference between natural and unnatural”
“The reason that man’s improved techniques seem to be necessary is that the natural balance has been so badly upset beforehand by those same techniques that the
land has become dependent on them.”
Session 17 video recording
Further resources
This video will completely change the way you think about pests, pest attack and priorities for growers and farmers.
Healthy soils build healthy plants, and helathy plants are resistant to pest attack.Kakuma, first stpes towards a Kakuma permaculture learning hub. Today I mey with the team of three poeple who want to begin the initiative towars establishing on going learning in this challenging refugee settlement.
This is a very arid area with very low rainfall.
This PDC was a collaboration between PRI-UG and Sector39, to offer a full 72-hour course to the Sisters at Tororo and their Laudato Si proejct and garden.
We thank trainers Vicky Akello and Irene Aturiende for their hard work and Sister Josephine who convened the course.