Tierra Lucero
The Permaculture Project
“Great changes are taking place. These are not as a result of any one group or teaching, but as a result of millions of people defining one or more ways in which they can conserve energy, aid local self-reliance, or provide for themselves. All of us would acknowledge our own work as modest; it is the totality of such modest work that is impressive.”
--Bill Mollison, author of “Permaculture: A Practical Guide to a Sustainable Future”
Tierra Lucero’s Executive Director, Bob Pedersen, is a certified Permaculture designer and, along with Tierra Lucero’s staff, interns and volunteers, he believes strongly in the principles underlying the worldwide Permaculture movement.
PRIME DIRECTIVE OF PERMACULTURE
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
PRINCIPLE OF COOPERATION
Cooperation, not competition, is the very basis of future survival and of existing life systems.
ETHICAL BASIS OF PERMACULTURE
1. Care of the Earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply.
2. Care of people: Provision for people to access those resources necessary to their existence.
3. Setting limits to population and consumption: By governing our own needs, we can set resources aside to further the above principles.
Tierra Lucero offers workshops in Permaculture design philosophy and methods, networking with local Permaculture instructors and utilizing established and developing demonstration sites.
Tierra Lucero staff helped develop a beautiful 15 acre Permaculture demonstration site in El Prado, just north of the Town of Taos. Our work is currently focussed on the development of the Red Willow Center at Taos Pueblo.
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Permaculture demonstration site
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Tierra Lucero staff helped to develop a Permaculture demonstration site located on 15 acres along the Rio Lucero stream in El Prado, NM, just north of the town of Taos.
Over ten years in development, the site was originally a treeless, boggy field, overgrazed for 100 years and, thankfully, unsuited to conventional development.
Bill Mollison, founder of Permaculture, also helped design the site.[back to top]
Thanks in part to a grant from the Fish and Game Department (Partners for Wildlife), today the land has incorporated:
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<li>Five large interlocking trout stocked ponds</li>
<li>Over 500 native and heritage trees, shrubs and grasses</li>
<li>An exquisite martial arts temple built of strawbale, adobe, and sustainably harvested timbers from Lama Mountain. </li>
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As are all Permaculture projects, the land is a work in progress. There is always another step toward further sustainability and self-sufficiency, toward more beauty and abundance.
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Permaculture Links & Resources
Here are a some of the web resources that we have found useful. Please contact us if you would like to offer additional suggestions!
[url=http://www.permaculture.com/]http://www.permaculture.com/[/url]
International Institute for Ecological Agriculture
[url=http://www.permaculture.co.uk/]http://www.permaculture.co.uk/[/url]
Permaculture Magazine
[url=http://www.permacultureactivist.net/]http://www.permacultureactivist.net/[/url]
The Permaculture Activist Magazine
[url=http://www.permacultureinternational.org/]http://www.permacultureinternational.org/[/url]
The Permaculture International Journal
[url=http://www.thefarm.org/permaculture/]http://www.thefarm.org/permaculture/[/url]
The “Crazy Palestinian’s” Permaculture page
http://www.agamanawa.com/
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