I just tell people about what I am doing when they ask me. But only if they seem interested in it. I try to avoid preaching to people who could care less. Unfortunately, my wife falls nearer to the latter than the former. But she is good about it. She is good at faking it... interest in permaculture that is.

I have a sample polyculture (radishes, lettuce, fed with clover and vetch, and fertilized with worm castings) in a wick planter on the air conditioner outside my school. I get salads, radishes, and edamame from it, and share them with the students.

I keep a worm bin in my office, and the students like to poke around in it.

I keep some gardening books and magazines on the table in the waiting room as well.

That's about it.
Eric in Japan

g'day seraphima,

i go along with eric i don't preach it to people either, i/we just go along doing our permaculture thing so to say, and when people show an interest in the subject matter then we show them some of what we are doing and how it works and helps us produce without a lot of work.

with pc people have got to want to change, they need to idenify their role in this changing planet, if that doesn't happen then they simply won't be told. from where i see things pc is losing on the world forum, there are still lots doing it but they are not sharing on the web like it was even up to a year or so ago (much in-fighting or politics if i may say). there is too much emphasis being put onto people having to pay hundres of dollars to do a course when all that is needed at best is that they buy a book on 'introduction to permaculture'.

i have responded in some of the posts in this forum where questions have been asked on different aspects of pc, that is how i can see that i can promote pc, and keep it in the keep it simple silly (KISS) catagory.

at present too much yuppyism has krept in and to be quiet open it turns people off.

len

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