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~~~ Bruce Weiskotten ~~~
Bruce Weiskotten, Certified Permaculture Designer since 1991. His business is Pan Earth Designs, a custom design build firm offering consulting, design, installation & project management services with emphasis on ecological sustainability since 1991.
Dancing Spirits Permaculture, is a Permaculture creation group developing in the Yelm area; supporting each other in projects; wholesale buyers' club for plants, seeds, materials; & conducting workshops on many topics related to Permaculture.
"What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. For a truly sustainable future, we need options – experimenting in all kinds of ways. Permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that."    -- David Suzuki

This series is designed by Bruce to make the permaculture method one you can incorporate in your gardening. It is part of BTO's Preparedness Series, our continuing quest to find and bring to you varied options that might resonate with you and further your progress towards preparedness and sustainability.

What is Permaculture?
A Design approach to produce our basic needs of food, shelter, energy, medicine from renewable resources mirroring natural ecosystems.
· Care of People, Care of the Earth, Care of all Living Beings
· Worldwide movement, includes all aspects of life and can be practiced on all levels - starting from growing some herbs on your balcony, recycling, making your own bread to living on your own self-sufficient family homestead.

What does Permaculture have to do with Preparedness?
Sustainability includes Preparedness
Fundamental Paradigms of Sustainable Culture
a) Building Community
b) Developing Local Economy
c) Family Farms & Homesteads
Practical Steps to get started
Very individual to one's situation, goals and needs - in the city, in the country. A "Tell Me then Show Me" series where Bruce offers ideas which are taught more in depth in the workshops. Links & books recommendations for each topic.

Many topics will be covered in more detail in future segments. If there are ones you would like to hear,
Some Examples:
== Edible landscape
== Food forests
== Ponds and swales - water retaining systems (how to garden without watering)
== Sepp Holzer's Permaculture
== Permaculture in the city

More information on Pan Earth Designs on their Website:   www.PanEarthDesigns.com








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March 13th, 2009
"The Abundant Household of Nature"
About Bruce, Sepp Holzer, applied ecology, and how to create ecosystems. Economics and ecology are the key to making environments work. "Through understanding and imitating nature we can make superior economies." Historically, the civilizations who used this are the ones who survived. It's very different from agri-business, tilling, chemicals, which grows food for the market, not for people. Bruce gives us a little history on how we came to this point from WWI to Nixon, and where it is leading into the future. He is very passionate about permaculture because it has so many solutions to all of our problems "it's all about how to create life intentionally." The natural way - creating sustainable eatable landscapes, observing nature, catching water, he describes Sepp Holzer's remarkable farm adorned by beautiful ponds. Our little town of Yelm has it's own water park which Bruce says is a world class demonstration for recovering clean water. But back to growing your own food, people today are more interested in that, not because of food shortage fears but because of the ingredients and contaminants in mass produced food. "Real hope for the future is tending your own homestead, it's about care of the earth, people, all living things." And your "homestead" could be a balcony, a kitchen garden, or a bucket!

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