You serve on the National Organic Standard board. Permaculture is a process of understanding, analyzing and designing systems. No previous permaculture experience is necessary to attend. Arent these all of the same qualities we want for our permaculture community at large? My term is coming to an end, and I hope they replace me with another indigenous person, but thats a political process, which is pretty crazy presently. They know how to see the health of the soil without needing a microscope. Allan Savory, the founder of holistic livestock management, was criticized by scientists because initially he didnt use scientific metrics to measure his success, but instead he used the overall improved health and biodiversity of the landscape. Accurate and contemporary information about Indigenous science, media, and curriculum for social change, Free eBooks packed with wisdom and insights from visionary voices in the Bioneers community, Our newsletters provide insights into the people, projects, and organizations creating lasting change in the world, Visionary Plant Consciousness & Psychedelics, The Fight Against Climate Change in the North, Farming with the Wild: An Interview with Jo Ann Baumgartner of the Wild Farm Alliance. They need that whole spectrum, the full body, the full room and the time to tell those stories along with their practices, which currently is hard to find in any of these multiple disciplines, whether it be agroecology, permaculture, or traditional ecological knowledge. And this is a metaphor for what we, the permaculture community, are attempting to do with nature. Cochiti people do things differently than Pomo people. That is so hard for me to understand. Producers That Are Decolonizing Agriculture. We need small, steady change built upon strong, healthy connections. She served as garden educator and camp director at the Truly Living Well Center for Urban Agriculture for eight years. Shes been living in rural, land-based community since 1995 and at Earthaven Ecovillage since 2000. Third, Trauger's suggestions for food-sovereign gov-ernment could have been developed better, including a more careful and strategic reflection about scale. He said that Western culture views the natural world as an it that can be exploited and processed. Perhaps this article already has you feeling triggered, frustrated, defensive? Sometimes its public benefit; sometimes its through actual cash economy transactions. Decolonizing Permaculture Whitewashed Hope: A Message from Indigenous Leaders and Organizations on Regenerative Agriculture and Permaculture "Whitewashed Hope" is an open-source document intended for sharing. The Pueblo of Jemez said that the Caldera has always been sacred to the Jemez people, and they have always had continuous access. Rather than trying to disprove or prove the functionality of these systems, science needs to take their cues and use scientific methods to explain the importance and the positives of these stewarded lands. )[xii] [xiii]. Recruitment is disingenuous. [v] Ideally this process should be done without strings attached. Have you been able to provide some indigenous perspective to that process? But it is very much the opposite of what agricultural systems are today, which tries to kill everything except the plant that you want to grow. Good luck! The Earth is dying. To find out more. Think of decolonization as another form of enlightened self-interest. Rather than being burdened with that task, the idea that we respect the unknown helps people deal with it. The reason for this relates to a concept in the article Decolonization is not a metaphor, which the authors call settler moves to innocence. A move to innocence is a diversionary attempt by a settler person to absolve themself of the guilt of living on stolen land using some form of catharsis, without actually addressing the difficult societal structures involved. Ive studied it to death, and Im still learning. As a principle for ecosystem design and care he talked about shifting the burden to the intervenor.[vii] So that when we decide to fall trees or sheet mulch so that we can plant forest gardens, the responsibility of managing the consequences of that disturbance falls to the gardener who intervened. People with more privilege have more control over their own lives and, as such, have better opportunities to manifest what they see as their true purpose, without the burdens (and time consumption) associated with struggling to survive on a daily basis. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak outBecause I was not a Jew. Opening a heartfelt dialogue with life-A film review of Into The Soil, Start Where You are: Discovery at Zone 00, Explaining regeneration and its expansion beyond the limits ofculture. Hey everyone! Amakiasu has been an educator for over 30 years. While its a challenge, its also a tremendous opportunity. Lillian Jackson created a an inclusive safe space at the permaculture.co.uk/articles . Commitment to Decolonizing Permaculture . But I realized that saying that sentence, especially to a room full of (mostly) white people, has the effect of erasing the lived experience of contemporary indigenous North American people. We have to remove the empire from our heads before we can remove the empire from any land base. When people ask what do some young people need as an ally.this is one of the people I think of. I recognize that these issues need to be studied and dealt with through an intersectional lens. (Think solidarity, being an ally, healing white fragility). In the sense of some kinds of strict land management and home economics, its kind of true. As a community steeped in the ecological design model known as Permaculture, Earthaven is taking a good long look at the ways in which the Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share movement has fallen short on the inclusion of black and brown voices, on addressing systemic injustices, on acknowledging where most land-based wisdom has originated. And when I see nasty, divisive behaviors like interrupting, shaming, slandering, disregarding, plagiarizing, avoiding, condescending, taking advantage of, jacking up the rent and calling oneself King, Duke, or Benevolent Dictator, they are coupled with rationalizations about how doing the work is more important than how others feel about the way that work gets done. More importantly, though, permaculture gives us the ability to heal and regenerate ecosystems through right relationship to all the other beings around us: plants, animals (including humans), wind, water, rocks, soils and so on. There are many reports that say carbon sequestration is happening in indigenous stewarded lands. And it isnt even accurate to say merely that the economic-political system is flawed, because it seems more accurate to say that it is deeply corrupt. In my work regionally in the Northeast Permaculture network, one proposal that has emerged is that we consciously refrain from self-applying the term indigenous if we are not actually indigenous to Native North or South America. And if we have privilege and agency within that unjust and atrocious system, we must commit to using that access to dismantle that system. Fair Shares, anyone? Lee Warren And I am asking you to check that luggage at the door, to open your heart and mind to the possibility that these actions will benefit not just you as an individual, but also the global community, in ways that avoiding change and hoarding your privilege wont. Decolonizing PermacultureExploring the Permaculture Principles through an Equity LensSaturdays, May 22 - June 1911am - 1pm Eastern TimeOnlinehttps://www.scho. To me, again, thats a fallacy. Shes been living in rural, land-based community since 1995 and at Earthaven Ecovillage since 2000. I submit that the framework of decolonization would also save permaculture from being one more happy-faced, green, eco-groovy front for the project of genocide. [x] In this case, settler peoples are studying and applying indigenous forms of land management, which can be positive as long as the tools and techniques are willingly shared by the indigenous peoples and not brashly stolen, like they have been so many other times throughout history. Life is not just an idea that lives in the head, or a feeling that lives in the heart. And we dont want you to feel bad about it. It leaves room at the table for processes to happen because if we knew everything and if we could mimic nature, theres no imagination thats needed, theres no room for surprises, and theres no room for some of the beauty that happens by happenstance. I see an agenda of decolonization coupled with land use based on permaculture design as a positive way forward toward a time of greater ecological and social health, in which we may rediscover how to live in right relationship to a place while simultaneously repairing and healing historic crimes against humanity. While I get excited about the National Agroforestry Center looking into Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with the interest of transitioning tillage-based agriculture to perennial agricultural systems, I cant help but notice the potential for inadvertent colonial appropriation. We should listen with humility when we are challenged over our privilege or unexamined racism. Tyson Sampson How can we translate and communicate that to members of our colonial culture who may have forgotten? Decolonizing Permaculture - A Letter From Starhawk Please give generously to support a more resilient and regenerative world. In an indigenous community if you had a person who hunted, if you had a person who could plant a seed, if you had a person who knew how to gather, then you had access to food. By choosing a higher price point, you are helping make the program more accessible to others for whom the low-end may be cost-prohibitive. Center for Communication and Civic Engagement, Culture Jamming and Meme-based Communication. https://depts.washington.edu/ccce/polcommcampaigns/CultureJamming.htm, [ii] Rafter Sass Ferguson, Critical Questions, Early Answers, Permaculture Activist 93 (Autumn 2014): http://liberationecology.org/critical-questions-early-answers/, Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility, The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy 3, no. Its a tall order, but I hope that you will embrace the challenge. This machine is ecocidal because it destroys mountaintops and water wells with fracking and coal mining. We are a very young society and nation. Because (and this is especially true when dealing with the permaculture community) I have consistently locked horns with the beasts enumerated above. Amakiasu has been an educator for over 30 years. Something to think about. She served as garden educator and camp director at the Truly Living Well Center for Urban Agriculture for eight years. In this important book, Linda Tuhiwai Smith meets a formidable challenge. All of these yearsorganizing Food Not Lawns, writing the book, growing and sharing seeds, traveling and collecting species and storiesall of that has been funded by me doing a lot of crazy shit for money. Well also discuss how to use these principles to transform ourselves, our values, our behaviors, our projects, and our society by interpreting them through a decolonized lens. Its also important to remember that no group of people is monolithic, whether we are talking about the permaculture movement, people of color, or Native American peoples. Podcast: Decolonization & Sudden Oak Life By Melissa Ott Fant February 15, 2021 Education broadacre permaculture, decolonization, permaculture design course, Sudden Oak Life, traditional ecological knowledge Current PDC student Danielle created two podcast episodes from audio recordings at our Broadscale Permaculture weekend in February 2021. The author describes the devastating effects of such research on indigenous peoples and articulates a new Indigenous Research Agenda which aims to replace former Western academic . Thanks to everyone who contributed to this issue. Decolonizing Permaculture Permaculture = Relationship by Stella Strega Scoz & Jose' Lorenzo Zamora Living Naturally: A Black Woman Practicing Permaculture by Kirtrina Baxter People of Color Statement from the NAPC by POC Caucus, NAPC 2014 Permaculture and the Patrix by Andrew Langford You name it: housecleaning, selling jewelry, and, of course, growing and trimming marijuana (which is what probably eighty percent of West Coast activists and artists have done to sustain themselves for decades.). You need to adjust to them. A-DAE: I think were still dealing with the issue of fences today. As such, I spent much of my childhood either homeless, living in a van, or being dropped off at a relatives house for a few months, to lighten the burden on my mom. For instance, my grandpa would take me to the field and tell a story about the last time he saw conditions like this and what his grandparents did. kcet.org/shows/tending-nature/the indigenous science of permaculture. ARTY: What does it mean to decolonize agriculture and how does that pertain to regenerative agriculture? Once, during a presentation I said, Permaculture allows us to remember how to be indigenous to a place. It was a meme I had seen elsewhere, but I instantly felt skeevy after repeating it and vowed to never say it again. You need to become embraced in that system in order to create not only a healthy food system, but also healthy people, a healthy environment, and a happy mental state. The middle of the scale reflects the value we believe the program holds and the low-end offers a more accessible entry point. Its almost like the idea of wilderness being healthy if nobodys in it. Watch keynote addresses, panel discussions, performances and more from visionary innovators. Learning Adventures with Earthaven Ecovillage, Saturdays, May 22 June 19 11am 1pm Eastern Time. Decolonization is about upholding longstanding treaties, adherence to international law, and the return of genuine sovereignty and the administration of land use to First Nations peoples. Is regenerative agriculture a place where traditional indigenous knowledge and science can complement each other? Indigenous People need room to tell those stories. We dont kill the natural systems in order to ensure that we survive, which is what food safety does. Think of it as regenerative design that heals and repairs ecosystems while at the same time producing beneficial yields. How do we remember that we are all indigenous to this planet, our Earth Mother, our Gaia? She served as garden educator and camp director at the Truly Living Well Center for Urban Agriculture for eight years. Recently the Pueblo of Jemez had a lawsuit against the forest service. Celebrating some of the best moments of the Bioneers conference through the last three decades. Imagine that there are so many new and true connections out there, just waiting for you to step forward. For this program, there will be no barriers to entry for people who identify as BIPOC. Then come back and try again. A-DAE: Agriculture, as were told in the American narrative, is the delineating line between civilization and the wild Indians. In an ideal process here in North America, determining the future of settler people would be a separate process of negotiation between the newly repatriated indigenous governance structure and the settler peoples. Right now it doesnt make a prominent habit of eating white cis-dudes because its busy making a habit of disenfranchising people of color, women, queer peoples and all those others. But as these brittle industrial systems fall apart as a result of climate change or energy shortages, those others can always be redefined to include me or you. In order to better understand the concrete ways in which permaculture can be colonizing and generally problematic within the context of social justice, it is important to get the facts from a reliable source i.e. Whenever I get questions about agriculture, I always get a little squirmy because I realize most people are coming from the perspective of the American historical narrative where Indigenous People are excluded. When that happens, people are disconnected from society and from the collective resources that go into making food. I am a permaculture designer, gardener, activist and teacher. Our bi-weekly newsletter provides insights into the people, projects, and organizations creating lasting change in the world. And while that seems progressive or cosmopolitan, are there instances where design principles or techniques associated with permaculture were misappropriated from indigenous peoples without their permission? Onward to regeneration of healthy systems! My lineage of permaculture teachers includes Charles & Julia Yelton and Lisa Fernandes of the Resilience Hub. She is now focusing on her writing and on EarthShine, a business that exposes children and teens to the wonders of the natural world. Tyson is a two-hearted and two-spirited person descended from the local indigenous matriarchy called the (A-ni-gi-lo-hi) based here in their aboriginal territory most commonly known as the Great Smoky Mountainsides. One of the design methods used in permaculture that takes place early on in a site design is Zone and Sector Analysis. Im here to help make the world a more just and sustainable place for my daughter and all the other children in the world, those alive today as well as those of future generations. : Episode 97 Douglas Rushkoff, What Could Possibly Go Right? Lee is a sustainability professional with twenty five years of experience envisioning, designing, and living innovative solutions to organic food systems, intentional community, and sustainability education. I have work to do, wrote one permaculture teacher who is known to be especially abusive. In order to do that, we need to include Indigenous People. Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak for me. 5/7/22 - Our Permaculture Community Comes Together - A Reflection on Weekend One of the PDC. Self-righteousness is certainly not a principle of permaculture, and yet we divide ourselves so easily, bickering over the details and competing for resources. Stories are from readers, activists, designers, teachers, and community organisers across America and around the world to reveal the newest discoveries in ecological systems. My response to that? They are not extinct. Copyright 2023 Permaculture Women's Guild & Heather Jo Flores. This article was originally printed in Permaculture Design Magazine (formerly Permaculture Activist) issue #98, Winter 2015. Remember the permaculture principles: Respond to feedback; Designer limits the yield; Problems are solutions; Mistakes are tools for learning. I have had a handful of discussions about decolonization in terms of giving land back to indigenous populations. Decolonization allows for a framework of relevance as long as we have the courage to heal our White Fragility[ix] and face the realities of a white supremacist economic-political system. In this sense, there is broad overlap between movements for social justice and anti-racism. Before that, people werent considered agriculturalists. See inside The Nook at Gateway Neighborhood, The Butterfly House in the Hut Hamlet Neighborhood, and The Hummingbird Apartment at Village Terraces Cohousing. We need people to understand that. Or perhaps its designed to function exactly as its functioning now: to keep the poor and disenfranchised firmly separated from the elites, and to maintain this oppressive distribution of power. The idea of the picket fence fascinated me. Think about what it means to be a true friend to somebody. Exploring the Intersection of Permaculture and Decolonization. Decolonizing Permaculture Workshop Description. And a true friend gives all of this back to you, and so much more. Judge me if you must, but I did what I had to do to survive. The biggest difference in contemporary agriculture versus indigenous agriculture is the idea of money. We all have indigenous ancestors, and they were once colonized too. of the critical dialogue around permaculture, including its ties with cultural appropriation and white dominance (Watson 2016). Understanding our place in the universe requires us to actually look at those time frames. We would do well to reflect on our role as ecosystem designers and designers of ecological culture, and to think of ourselves in our design and organizing work as culture jammers.[i] What then, are some responsibilities here (vis a vis EarthCare, PeopleCare, FutureCare)? The indigenous universal connection is the idea that you absolutely need to be part of the natural cycles around you, whether theyre negative or positive. Indigenous communities embrace the environments that were in. Well explore how the concepts of colonization, power-over, and dominator thinking have pervaded modern culture and offer suggestions about how to move towards a more holistic, equitable, integrated, and life-centered mindset. These behaviors discredit the permaculture movement at large, and unless we can overcome them, our ultimate goal of sharing a true and authentic sustainability will remain far out of reach.
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