Permaculture Chat

Finn joins us as we look to apply permaculture principles and thinking to wider issues, like we find in the news. We choose the biggest issues currently in the media and see what we can learn about how we're handling it.

Finn is going to be the lead tutor on a new Permaculture Design Certificate for Raglan. The last series of courses ended due to Covid but Finn and a group of local permaculturists are putting together a new 10 day course especially for the people of Whaingaroa.

Finn joins us with some ideas for increasing local food production, and the necessary skills to do that. Ideas that include group of ten families who share a piece of land locally and produce food together through the year. The Whaingaroa Community Resilience Forum earlier this year highlighted local food production as a goal for the community.

Following the Community Resilience Hui, Finn brings us the 6 main resilience issues the forum settled on as being crucial to Whaingaroa.

Finn Mackesy and Gabrielle Parson report on the Community Resilience Forum held last month and look ahead to the second forum this weekend where they will build on the issues raised last month and look at how to make our community more resilient for the future.

With a community resilience meeting this weekend, Finn and Aaron talk about what this word means for everything from humans, to the natural world through to engineered systems - and also how a healthy social/emotional community is essential for human resilience during times of crisis when the focus is usually on meeting basic needs.

The industrial age's drive to control the natural world is clearly failing so what can permaculture tell us about a different way forward. Finn Mackesy joins us to talk about the last of the permaculture design principles.

The 11th permaculture design principle feels like the opposite of large monoculture farming systems so what is the benefit and how do we apply it.

Just how widely can we apply this permaculture design principle? Finn Mackesy joins us to talk about how it will apply to everything from your garden to national politics.

In our world that is fast and furious what can we learn from the permaculture design principal of Small and Slow Solutions and what do the lessons mean for the future of our society.

It sounds like advice for good race relations but this it turns out this is how the natural world operates which is why David Holmgren chose it as a Permaculture Design Principal. Finn Mackesy is in studio to talk about the principle and how complexity is normal in the natural world and how new things can emerge from this complexity.

Modern culture has created patterns that aren't easy to see for a human being. Are we ironing out the details or heading to ecological crisis? Do we even know what our modern patterns are at this stage? Finn Mackesy is in studio for a second conversation about the Design Prinicple; Design from pattern to detail and how it can be applied to so many aspects of our lives.

What does gorse reveal about the natural pattern of our landscape? What's the natural size of a village of human beings? Where should be we put our house? Finn Mackesy joins us to discuss the permaculture design principle; Design from Pattern to Detail

We know a lot about this in our community but there is a lot more to the discussion that we might realise. Finn Mackesy is in studio to look at this Permaculture Design Principle.

Finn brings us a discussion about this permaculture design principle, one that seems particularly challenging to modern industrial culture

It sounds like personal advice and it could be, but it's also advice our species needs to take on board as we try to design our way out of the current ecological crisis

Finn Mackesy joins us again to talk about the permaculture design principal Obtain a Yield and how much we've lost focus on this issue in the modern world

Finn is in studio to talk about energy and the fundamental role it plays in our loves, how it underpins our economy and how we need to think about it.

Finn joins us to look at permaculture design principle Observe and Interact and we use his new property as an example

What are the design principals all about, why we need them and a look at just how integrated and holistic the permaculture approach is compared to reductionist science

Finn and Aaron have a second conversation about why the study of systems theory might be useful for pretty much everyone

Finn and Aaron have decided to talk about the study of systems and why it's so important in helping us understand how the world works

We talk about the permaculture domain of Building and try to apply some permaculture thinking to our current building problems

Finn Mackesy joins us to look at the permaculture domain of Health and Spiritual Wellbeing

Finn Mackesy joins us to talk about the permaculture domain of land tenure and community governance