20/ The theory people will tell you that you can use pigs to turn over earth. They don't focus on the fact that (a) pigs will run off, (b) it takes strong fences to keep them in, (c) it's a royal pain in the !@# to get a pig back home again. You've got 4 acres you want plowed?
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31/ and finally, the third aspect of it: permaculture is stuff that people are already doing. It's fun to be the young firebrand who says "the old timers JUST DON'T GET IT MAN". ...but you know what? The old timers often DO get it. A lot of what permaculture fans criticize >
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32/ Is an extreme or parody or outdated view of farming. Farmers aren't dumb. Farmers aren't immoral (any more than the rest of humanity). Farmers are not ignorant of cutting edge tech. A lot of "permaculture innovations" are not.
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33/ You think it's genius to compost animal waste from your barn and fertilize your fields with it? The market provides tools for this, everything from low tech manure spreader carts to deep ground liquified manure injection.
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34/ A lot of permaculture fans, because they learn their stuff either in an academic (i.e. largely theoretical ) environment, or online, don't even KNOW about the world of professional farming.
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35/ Anyway: permaculture has some good stuff, some bad stuff, and some stuff that everyone already knew. 1) get out there and farm...if you want to. If not, don't. 2) consider buying a copy of my novel to subsidize my farming lulz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6 /exeunt
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36/ First, there WAS MORE FARMING THAN IN MOST SF slight spoiler. Book 3 & 4 will have a minor farming thread For two reasons: 1) tribute to Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky 2) the acronym FFA (Future Farmers of Aristillus) is just too perfect to ignorehttps://twitter.com/ItsRobbAllen/status/967106733041770496 …
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37/ For anyone still reading, some pix of my farm... Icelandic sheep, some shorn, some notpic.twitter.com/WQsstDKu40
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40/ me, in front of firewood that I've cut, split, and stackedpic.twitter.com/QO45TN4sQD
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50/ ...and that's about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1XgFsitnQw …
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51/ Great question https://twitter.com/IcyTekla/status/967113882119663617 …
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