garden - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-28T14:53:19Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/feed/tag/garden“Therapeutic Permaculture” - Article by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Mediahttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/therapeutic-permaculture-article-by-willi-paul-planetshifter-com2016-01-20T20:58:33.000Z2016-01-20T20:58:33.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p style="text-align: center;"></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <span class="font-size-4">“Therapeutic Permaculture” - Article by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com</span> <br/> <span class="font-size-4">Media</span></p>
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<p>EXCERPT:<br/> "Using gardening tasks and the garden itself, permaculture therapists build a set of activities for each gardener to improve their particular health needs, and to work on certain goals they want to achieve."</p>
<p></p><p class="attachment"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9142583864?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forest Farm Peace Garden Ecotherapy Programme (UK).pdf</a></p></div>“The Secret Food Forest” – New Myth 72. Inspired by the “Mythology, Spirit and Permaculture” Workshop @ 2015 Northwest Permaculture Convergence. PDF + Video. Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Mediahttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/the-secret-food-forest-new-myth-72-inspired-by-the-mythology2015-09-02T13:22:38.000Z2015-09-02T13:22:38.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p dir="ltr"></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span><font size="3">“<a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2299" target="_blank">The Secret Food Forest</a>” – New Myth 72. </font></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span><font size="3">PDF + <a href="http://youtu.be/orDsQ7wOg_s" target="_blank">Video</a>. Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media </font></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Transition Palo Alto’s Spring Share Faire is March 15 at <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lucie+Stern+Community+Center/@37.444324,-122.145471,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x808fbb1756cbf3b3:0x8a71097bc2a8df5d" target="”blank”">Lucie Stern Community Center</a>, Fireside Room and Patio, Palo Alto, CA. Sunday, March 15, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Included here: Interview with Skill Share presenter Nick Turner of <a href="http://deepnaturegardens.com/" target="”blank”">deep nature gardens</a> by Willi Paul, <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2247" target="”blank”">Planetshifter.com Magazine.</a></strong></span></p>
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<p>* * * * * * *<br/> <strong><a href="http://transitionpaloalto.org/sharing-expos/" target="”blank’">It's the Spring Share Faire!</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Bring stuff to share</strong> - garden produce, books, clothes, crafts, toys, etc., AND learn new skills. Plus fun activities for kids!</p>
<p>We're excited to be holding our first Share Faire at Lucie Stern Community Center. The Fireside Room will give us some wonderful indoor space (and a place to hide from the rain, if only!). The Patio will allow us to spread out, holding many skill shares and sharing lots of goods, as usual.</p>
<p>We've had quite a few teachers approach us, some who've shared skills before and who have new things to offer, others who are first timers. You'll want to spend a little time visiting them all. And there's certainly room for a couple more: if you have a skill to share, let us know and we'll see if we can fit you in. Contact <strong>Peter Ruddock</strong> (PeterRuddock at yahoo.com) if you are interested.</p>
<p><strong>Confirmed Skill Shares so far -</strong></p>
<p><strong>Cecile Andrews</strong>, author of Living Room Revolution, will stir up a little Patio Revolution. She will lead a Conversation Circle about Conversation and Community!</p>
<p><strong>Tom Kabat</strong> will help with bike maintenance, chain oil and adjustment etc. Bring any parts you want to install (e.g. new brake cable, brake pads, inner-tube etc.) Experienced bike fixer / ergonomic adjuster available to work with you.</p>
<p><strong>Emily Rosen</strong> CMT, will facilitate massage, working with people in pairs. Sooooothe and connect. Partner up with a friend and learn some great techniques for 10 minute seated massage. We could all use some TLC!</p>
<p><strong>Amanda Kovattana</strong> will demo simple shoe making skills using readily available hand tools and instructions. As a student shoe maker in her second year, she will speak to her successes and failures and show shoe samples of both.</p>
<p><strong>Nick Turner</strong> of deep nature gardens ( <strong>see interview below</strong>) will offer pre-sprouted "eco-packs" - small pots containing a variety of interesting plants, many of them not available in nurseries, and he will demonstrate how to create them using planting mix, a pot, and the special "eco-mix" seed mixture. People can make up an eco-pack of their own and take it home for sprouting. There will also be eco-mix in small bottles, useful for boosting the diversity of any nature garden, plus more cool stuff as available.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/NeighborsHelpingNeighborsPaloAlto" target="”blank”">Neighbors Helping Neighbors</a></strong> (NHN) will be providing some give-a-ways and sharing information about their programs that benefit the community. NHN has a Backyard Program for Gardeners-Beekeepers-Coopsters. Come see their backyard garden program display, receive seeds and more.</p>
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<p>* * * * * * *<br/> <strong>Interview with Nick by Willi -</strong></p>
<p><strong>Is ecosystem farming also called urban agriculture and/or permaculture?</strong></p>
<p>You can call it that if you want to, but I don't.</p>
<p>Ecosystem farming can be done in an urban environment, but the urban-ness is not important. It is simply the idea of a farm as an ecosystem, meaning that nothing is wasted and everything gets recycled back into the system. This involves good composting, good soil management, proper lighting and microclimate, and a complete nutrient cycle. Nutrients are given to the world in the form of edible or useful products, and they are received from the world in the form of kitchen scraps for compost, along with other input nutrient streams.</p>
<p>Permaculture principles are applied in an ecosystem farm because they are valuable basic ideas that have great application in any ecosystem farm, but that does not make every ecosystem farm into a permaculture example. All proper permaculture farms are ecosystem farms, but not all ecosystem farms are permaculture farms. Ecosystem farming also applies to enclosed ecosystems such as bio-enclosed greenhouses where permaculture principles are less prominent.</p>
<p><strong>How do you teach sustainability at the TPA Spring Share Faire?</strong></p>
<p>I do not explicitly teach sustainability at the Share Faires. What I share are ways to introduce greater beauty, diversity, and abundance into suburban and rural gardens and farms, using the principles of deep nature gardening and ecosystem farming. Sustainability is a natural outgrowth of this teaching of beauty, diversity, and abundance.</p>
<p><strong>Species extinction is a huge issue at this time in human history. Are you addressing it at deep nature gardens or other communities?</strong></p>
<p>Deep nature gardening is all about preserving species diversity. In a deep nature garden we are much more interested in unknown sprouts and unidentified species than we are in any kind of "commercial" plants. In a deep nature garden there is no such thing as a "weed." We celebrate unidentified sprouts and nurture them until they can be identified. Many fascinating, unusual species continue to emerge as this wonderful adventure continues, and many of those unusual, sometimes rare plants end up in client gardens. Of course, all these rare plants attract their own kinds of rare insects and other critters, further increasing the diversity of all of the gardens. All of this helps to preserve the species diversity of Gaia here on Planet Earth.</p>
<p><strong>Are there small or big rituals in your approach to a sacred or deep Nature garden?</strong></p>
<p>I do not ever use the word "sacred" in connection with gardens or farms, because there are many people who have various emotional associations with highly colored words like that. Whether a garden is "sacred" is a judgment I leave to the garden's owner. As for rituals, I also leave that up to the garden's owner. What I am all about is preserving and enhancing Gaia's wonderful species diversity, beauty, and abundance. To me on a very personal level that work is definitely "sacred," but I do not force that view onto my clients, and there aren't any particular rituals involved, other than the practical working patterns I use to create and evolve these gardens.</p>
<p><strong>What are the challenges when constructing an enclosed balcony garden?</strong></p>
<p>The answer to this depends on the specifics of the balcony. Whether it is enclosed or open, there may be big issues around microclimate. Balcony gardens in general tend to have problems with light, humidity, wind, and temperature. But every balcony is different. Balcony and patio gardens, whether they are enclosed or not, require careful attention to these factors. Each situation is unique.</p>
<p>Having said that, any kind of container garden has some common issues, including rapid drying, nutrient depletion, and much more. Container gardening can be challenging, especially on a balcony or outdoor patio.</p>
<p><strong>Can a vegetable patch be a Nature garden?</strong></p>
<p>Of course! But most veggie patches are far from nature gardens. For it to be a nature garden, it must feature a full, complete ecosystem, including critters that eat the plants, and critters that eat those critters. Since most veggie gardeners prefer not to have aphids or caterpillars in their vegetable patches, they are not nature gardens.</p>
<p><strong>Is a seed bomb like an eco-pack?</strong></p>
<p>Seed bombs are tossed into vacant lots by "guerrilla gardeners.” A seed bomb is like an eco-pack in the sense that it is a way to introduce new diversity into an area of soil, but it's different in that an eco-pack is a carefully created collection of plants in one container, resulting from a months-long process of thinning and pruning. A seed bomb is a collection of seeds tossed into an area and then (probably!) forgotten, in the hope that some of those seeds might sprout and survive in the area where it is tossed.</p>
<p>Eco-packs are carefully evolved and specifically planted in owner-authorized places where their selected plant species have a good chance of growing and becoming naturalized. Seed bombs are far more haphazard, often illegal, and far more random.</p>
<p><strong>You have many shovels in the ground, Nick! What is a “Local Resilience Ecosystem” vs. a deep Nature garden?</strong></p>
<p>A Local Resilience Ecosystem is a collection of humans who bring various forms of produced abundance to gatherings where they share that abundance with each other without any form of "value accounting." It is a human activity designed to help all of us become more abundantly, sustainably, prosperous by sharing our produced goodness. There is much more <a href="http://www.meetup.com/local-resilience-ecosystem/about/" target="”blank”">here</a>.</p>
<p>A deep nature garden is an area of the surface of our beloved planet Earth where one or more humans act to create, preserve, and enhance the beauty, diversity, and abundance of the local biological ecosystem.</p>
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<p>* * * * * * *<br/> <strong>Nick Turner's Bio -</strong></p>
<p>After more than three decades as a computer firmware engineer, Nick Turner returned to his deepest roots as an experimental and practical ecosystem gardener. Now he helps people turn ordinary lawns and shrubberies into beautiful, diverse, abundant nature gardens, and he helps to create productive food farms in suburban spaces. The work is called deep nature gardening and ecosystem farming. Nick's current calling as a garden and farm ecology consultant suits his personality far better than cubicle-based software design!</p>
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<p>Nick Turner / <a href="http://deepnaturegardens.com/" target="”blank”">deep nature gardens</a><br/> nick at mindheart.org<br/> land line: 650-323-7864<br/> cell: 650-380-0036</p></div>“safe at home”- poem by willi paul, planetshifter.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/safe-at-home-poem-by-willi-paul-planetshifter-com2015-03-03T18:40:42.000Z2015-03-03T18:40:42.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2248" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/centerspace_37.JPG?width=367" width="250" class="align-center" height="394"/></a></div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">call the kids. heat up the soup. alter a skirt. find the cat.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">floss your teeth. turn off the light. find a tool. take a shower.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">check that air pressure. cheer for the team. swallow your pills.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">pour the milk. make love in the garden. wave at your neighbor.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">pet the dog. empty the dishwasher. watch channel 7.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">talk to dad. shop online. take out the recycling. take a walk.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">re-boot the computer. clean the mirror. mark the calendar.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">turn off the timer. bring in the groceries. fold the socks.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://transitionpaloalto.org/" target="_blank">Transition Palo Alto</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>W: Two of my personal interests are localization and security. Many of my <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/56" target="”blank”">New Myths</a> describe the inevitable haves and have not’s, both now and in the future. Will some of us benefit from gardens and green tech water systems while others will not?</strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><b>P:</b> In a sustainable world, there cannot be haves and have-nots. If there are, we create problems. If those who have-not do not have the basics, then they would be justified in protest in order to get them. But even when everyone has the basics, those who have significantly less are justified in asking why. Some will be envious of what they do not have; envy can lead to crime. The size of inequality is one of the greatest indicators of trouble, and unrest, and health!, in any society.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">It is our job as part of Transition to figure out how to include everyone. And to decrease the inequality of our society. This is not something we currently do well, being a rather homogeneous group of mostly well-educated, middle-aged, white people. And it is not something that we seem well able to address. Nevertheless, we have to figure out how to be inclusive – we only win when everybody wins.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong><a href="http://planetshifter.com/node/2188" target="”blank”">Planetshifter.com</a></strong> launches a <strong><a href="http://tinyurl.com/oduknnd" target="”blank”">Kickstarter Campaign</a></strong> to fund an Animation Pilot for “<strong><a href="http://communityalchemy.com/PWilli/PermacultureWilli.pdf" target="”blank”">The Adventures of Permaculture Willi (“P-Willi”): The Glowing Labyrinth.</a></strong>” Enjoy the Launch Day <strong><a href="http://susansilber07.wix.com/susansilber11#%21Willi-Paul-/c17jj/1" target="”blank”">Interview</a></strong> with Willi Paul by Susan Silber.</span></p>
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<p><strong>The purpose of this <a href="http://tinyurl.com/oduknnd" target="”blank”">Kickstarter Campaign</a></strong> is to animate a permaculture story by <strong><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1422" target="”blank”">Willi Paul</a></strong> and create a pilot to take to market as a half hour television, cable or Internet-based children’s show.</p>
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<p><strong>Background</strong>: please enjoy the script for the Kickstarter campaign and pilot: “<strong><a href="http://communityalchemy.com/PWilli/PermacultureWilli.pdf" target="”blank”">The Adventures of Permaculture Willi (“P-Willi”): The Glowing Labyrinth.</a></strong> to understand the wondrous dynamics of a teenager who hangs out in her wired yurt surrounded by her permaculture garden in Berkeley, CA.</p>
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<p><strong>Kickstarter Campaign Launch Day</strong> Interview with Willi by <a href="http://susansilber07.wix.com/susansilber11#%21Willi-Paul-/c17jj/1" target="”blank”">Susan Silber</a></p>
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<p><strong>What inspired you to make an animated video about permaculture? How would you define success for this project?</strong></p>
<p>Two reasons: permaculture needs more media to get the word out. Since children are watching edu-animated programs across all device formats, Permaculture Willi can now better use the principles and ethics for a deeper experience.</p>
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<p>Success will be meeting the funding goal so I can build the “P-Willi” pilot as I help to educate new folks to the planet-changing world of permaculture.</p>
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<p><strong>What is P-Willi up to in subsequent plots?</strong></p>
<p>She has her hands full in Berkeley at her yurt and the labyrinth renovation – but she has mucho virtual tasks ahead of her as a “ <strong>wired global localist!</strong> ”</p>
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<p><strong>Who is the target audience for this project?</strong></p>
<p>I will gear my answer for the business community. Key market sectors for sponsorships, vendors and actors include:</p>
<p>• Children’s Media (TV, cable, online and books)<br/> • Permaculture (green, sustainability, foodies)<br/> • Education (all levels)<br/> • Animation</p>
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<p><strong>Ideally speaking, what role do you see children in the <a href="http://www.joannamacy.net/thegreatturning.html" target="”blank”">Great Turning</a>, as Joanna Macy calls it?</strong></p>
<p>Children, parents and teachers need to seek-out our global stories and risk more now by educating themselves outside of our present “Wal-Mart quagmire” as they are the key to building the New World. Kids are the transformational triggers in my emotional and creative investment in “P-Willi.”</p>
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<p><strong>How else can the permaculture movement integrate the youngest generation into the work that we do, other than this video?</strong></p>
<p>We need to shift from the constant “sell sell” in the crowded PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) market and create a national / global permaculture curriculum for the schools.</p>
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<p><strong>Do see any spin-offs coming out of the P-Willi animation?</strong></p>
<p>Web sites; app; curriculum; books; clothes, tools?</p>
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<p><strong>How do you think that permies will see themselves in this venture?</strong></p>
<p>I hope that we see our own kids in the journey of “P-Willi.”</p>
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<p><strong>As in your <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/56" target="”blank”">New Myths</a>, you blend permaculture with other forces for lesson making. What are these other forces in your view and why did you include them in original piece?</strong></p>
<p>Permaculture for me is much more than a new-agriculture movement and has always blended many things: a spiritual connection; new alchemy; transition values; Nature; <strong><a href="http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=11" target="”blank”">Joseph Campbell’s</a></strong> journey, hero, and initiation.</p>
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<p><strong>Your Kickstarter Campaign promo video is a little rough!?</strong></p>
<p>I agree. I shot it in one take - by myself. I hope that “P-Willi” and her promise will carry the day!</p></div>