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Profitable Permaculture? Look no further..
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Charlie Michaels
Joined: Jan 17, 2010
Posts: 124
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A really inspiring article about a Wisconsin Permaculture farmer, enjoy:
http://permaculture.org.au/2010/12/18/mark-shepherds-106-acre-permaculture-farm-in-viola-wisconsin/
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Feral Hatfield
Joined: Aug 07, 2010
Posts: 271
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EXCELLENT article!
Thanks!
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Charlie Michaels
Joined: Jan 17, 2010
Posts: 124
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I think this quote sums up his income method
Like all of my many ventures, there is no one enterprise that is able to pay all the bills all by itself. Every venture that we do is small. I don’t have the job skills, tools or education to earn $100,000 and $100,000 seems like a big scary number to me. But I can a dollar. I can sell a dozen trees. I can sell a couple of sticks, some cut flowers, some asparagus, some mushrooms, some salad greens, do a couple tours, speak at a conference or two, teach a course, grow some peppers, sell some nuts, make some cider, sell some pigs and some beef, sell some firewood, etc., and it all adds up. No one thing does it. They all are key.
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rckymtnhigh McCoy
Joined: Jul 30, 2010
Posts: 12
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Great article worth the read!
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christhamrin McCoy
Joined: Nov 08, 2010
Posts: 147
Location: Anoka Sand Plain, MN Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 43
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i highly recommend this podcast interview with him also: http://agroinnovations.com/index.php/en_us/multimedia/blogs/2009/01/permaculture-in-the-savanna/
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Joe Skeletor
Joined: Jan 04, 2010
Posts: 92
Location: Northern Illinois - zone 5b
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I saw him speak last year at the MOSES conference. Great speaker, I would love to see his farm one day. - Joe
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Leucaena Hatfield
Joined: Sep 17, 2010
Posts: 40
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"Ninety percent of certified permaculture designers that I have encountered are not doing it. They're playing at the edges and fooling themselves. They're not creating a different culture, they're not growing their own food." -Shepard
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Andrew Michaels
Joined: Sep 05, 2008
Posts: 73
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This guy really impresses me. I especially love what he has to say about really going after things, making it profitable, and registering as a business, etc.
I love how he deals with the interns by not using them as interns but instead making them self reliant by hiring them like he would another contracting business.
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yukkuri kame
Joined: May 23, 2010
Posts: 365
Location: Foothills north of L.A., zone 9ish mediterranean
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RusticBohemian wrote:
I love how he deals with the interns by not using them as interns but instead making them self reliant by hiring them like he would another contracting business.
Kudos to him.
It's painful to see so many organic farms run on a neo-feudal landlord/landless serf relationship. We need to challenge that arrangement, not greenwash it.
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How do I get the software to display my location like it used to? Anyway, I'm in the Foothills north of L.A., zone 9ish mediterranean.
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Tyler Ludens
Joined: Jun 25, 2010
Posts: 5313
Location: Central Texas USA Latitude 30 Zone 8
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yukkuri_kame wrote:
Kudos to him.
It's painful to see so many organic farms run on a neo-feudal landlord/landless serf relationship. We need to challenge that arrangement, not greenwash it.
100% agree!
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Idle dreamer
My projects
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Andrew Michaels
Joined: Sep 05, 2008
Posts: 73
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Has he written anything? I'd love to hear more about his ideas and techniques.
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yukkuri kame
Joined: May 23, 2010
Posts: 365
Location: Foothills north of L.A., zone 9ish mediterranean
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RusticBohemian wrote:
Has he written anything? I'd love to hear more about his ideas and techniques.
The website suggests a book on the way.
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