I keep quite a few things set up on Google New Alerts. That is where you run a search for a term on Google News and ask them to send you an email when ever a given word or phrase pops up in the news. So as you might imagine I do this for terms like “pandemic”, “economic collapse”, “natural disaster” and many others related to the preparedness industry.

I also have terms set up that are more on subjects connected to basic self sufficiency and homesteading. As you might imagine I include the term “permacuture”. The other day that alert sent me a link to an article called, “Traditional Farming in the Rain Forest”, it led to an article that was a scathing retort on permaculture calling it basically useless.

The author gets almost every single part wrong. It wasn’t that we disagree mind you it was that his claims and assertions were simply 100% inaccurate. Despite this it has helped me to better understand many of the objections I hear about permaculture. Today I plan to discuss them and try to answer some of these objections, hopefully with a now better understanding of what the objection is really all about.

Join me today as I discuss…

1 Prime Directive + 3 Ethics = Permaculture

Common Objections to Permaculture (none of which are based on reality)

The Rain Forest can’t feed as many people per acre as a farm



If we don’t do anything and let nature take its course we will starve



We need annual crops too not just perennials



Permaculture only produces weird things no one eats



Permaculture is limited to forest gardening



All permaculture amounts to is good organic gardening



Permaculture is all about growing food and plants



We can’t have productivity with out fertilizer and irrigation



We have to till soil to plant modern crop

Resources for Today’s Show…