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Permaculture is a great alternative to unsustainable conventional ag practices. There are real benefits in terms of soil and water management and diversity and pest control. It hopes to address the shortcomings of conventional ag with soil degradation, nutrient management, water management and biodiversity.
There are flavours and variations of permaculture that are getting academically rigorous study including silvopasture, groundswales, companion planting (three sisters) etc…
Discounting permaculture because of the their cookes is like discounting medicine because of their cookes. Yes the PDC is a bit MLMy, just like Passive House certifications and courses, but there are legitimate benefits to the practices.
It was taught in my University’s Environmental Science program. All the ag focused universities do research on various aspects of it, in particular as a response to climate risks.
Those seeds in your farm contain patented DNA, please pay up.
That’s not how that works. You pay when you buy the seeds.
Then there’s hybrid vigor. And I think someone figured out how to make seeds that only work for four generations… Can’t remember the details.
All hybrid seeds basically only work for one generation, because basic genetics.
Terminator Seedsare about 25 years old now, and aren’t actually in use anywhere.
Yup. That’s why I said that’s not how it works. Because you buy seeds with hybrid vigor.
They had a kill gene so some crazy inventor wouldn’t kill humanity, or that was the reason I heard back in the day…
The so called terminator gene was developed in and to attempt to limit the spread of GMO genes into the wild populations. It was a USDA-ARS program. Not their best work but it would have prevented today’s clusterfuck of contamination.
I haven’t heard of the contamination problem, do you have any info about that?
https://doi.org/10.4161/21645698.2014.945883
Here’s a paper discussing the issue.
Corn to teosintes GMO contamination is also huge issue especially in southern states.
20+ years after a failed introduction of GMO RR wheat, they are still finding it in fields.
https://www.producer.com/news/cause-of-gm-wheat-escape-unlikely-to-be-known/
Eh kind of but just don’t buy anything and you’ll be fine. And read the actual literature and studies out there
like a pretty hot take backed by the science, there are much better bioaccumulators than comfrey
Now I’m interested in the permaculture problematic? The moon and stuff never convinced me but from what I heard about permaculture it didn’t sound out of touch ?
It’s basically a super fuzzy subject that changes as you want, and in so far as its useful it’s not new, and the parts that are new aren’t useful. Also, the guy who coined the term is a nutcase.
See “Issues” section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
“less- or no-work gardening, bountiful yields, and the soft fuzzy glow of knowing that the garden will … live on without you” were often illusory.[
maybe that’s why I never have tomatoes
