Jun 1, 2014
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To Till or Not To Till
with Patrick Whitefield
Frosty mornings & dreaming of a forest garden...
Here in the Highlands we've had a very wet winter so far. There were a few days in early November when it snowed for two days, but it melted very quickly after. Now the mornings are turning frosty once more giving the hedges and trees a lovely sparkle at dawn. The single glazed tenement windows in the past often had beautiful patterned ice on the inside and it was so cold in the mornings we couldn't wait to get through to the kitchen where our schoolclothes were being warmed in front of the range. I am reading about 'forest gardening' just now, wondering if I could create an edible patch which follows the natural pattern of growth found in the wild. This process called 'permaculture' creates the growing space in a series of zones. Permaculture theory can also be applied to other areas of life, but more of that later..
Is it all worth it? If we do our best to heal the Earth and make our place in her a sustainable one, is there a good chance that we will succeed? To my mind that’s the wrong question. Even if we could answer it – and we can never know anything about the future for certain - it would beg the question: How do I want to live my life? So my answer to the question is that I want to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
Permaculture teacher, designer and author Patrick Whitefield in The Earth Care Manual
"Is it all worth it? If we do our best to heal the Earth and make our place in her a sustainable one, is there a good chance that we will succeed?… To my mind that’s the wrong question. Even if we could answer it - and we can never know anything about the future for certain -, it would beg the question: How do I want to live my life? So my answer to the question is that... I want to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem."
Patrick Whitefield 'Earth Care Manual'