The Permaculture Show

1994

Documentary

Note: NetWorks Productions Inc. holds the copyrights to this on-line series. We ask that our copyrights be honored. In addition, "Permaculture" is a copyrighted word. Only those who have completed a 72-hour design course are authorized to use the word in commerce. These videos are documents from two design courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 1994 and 1995. They are a definitive selection from our original 16 part series. These tapes bear many viewings and will benefit anyone who wants to learn how to help regenerate the earth - from back yard to bio-region. Teachers of permaculture have found these tapes to be a valuable coaching tool - edited to one hour. This is an opening lecture. The principles of functional design for sustainability are unique to Permaculture design. Find the rest of the 16-lecture series at networkearth.org http://www.networkearth.org/perma/culture.html

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Status

Returning Series

First Aired

January 1, 1994

Last Aired

April 23, 1994

Created By

Bill Mollison

Where to Watch

Region US · Lang EN

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

The Function of Design

Air date: 1994-01-01

This is an opening lecture. The principles of functional design for sustainability are unique to Permaculture design.

Fundamentals Of Pattern

Air date: 1994-01-08

From a singular event all other events are set in motion in recognizable and predictable patterns This pattern recognition is the core of design in Permaculture.

Pattern Application

Air date: 1994-01-15

Efficiency of energy, resources, and time, and the creation of highly productive systems are the results of good Permaculture design. The methods are obvious once we have become co-creative with the forces of nature.

Home Gardening Part 1

Air date: 1994-01-22

Find out why it is so important to grow your own food and how to install the easiest, and highly productive, home food propagation systems; mulch garden, potato box, herb's spiral, and more. You don't need much space. These are basic Permacultural techniques.

Home Gardening Part 2

Air date: 1994-01-29

Trees 1

Air date: 1994-02-05

The tree is life - profound, magnificent, and mysterious. To learn what little we can know of trees is sufficient to leave one awestruck and reverent.

Trees 2

Air date: 1994-02-12

Why is a tree green? Where does a tree end or begin? Why have all human societies destroyed the tree? A Mollison rave.

Farmer's Trees

Air date: 1994-02-19

These are very specific trees which are used around the world for their ability to improve soils. They are invaluable in range for livestock, as well as in fields under cultivation.

Forests And Woodlands

Air date: 1994-02-26

Methods to plant, sustain, and best utilize woodland and wood for fuel, forage, windbreak and construction.

E10

Pasture And Range Restoration

Air date: 1994-03-05

What is cultura promiscua? To maintain functional bio-diversity is a basic tenet of Permaculture. Severely degraded land can be easily restored to highly productive land by using good observation techniques, plants and animals in succession, and common sense.

E11

Soil Conditioning

Air date: 1994-03-12

... a continuation of #10. Two main techniques: the chisel-plow, and the wonders of worms and how to cultivate them. The patterns described in these two videos can be replicated in any type of Permaculture system, and scaled to any size.

E12

Water

Air date: 1994-03-19

...a continuation of the Trees episode. Potable water - where does it come from? How did it get there? What has become of it? What we can do to ensure that we will have safe water to drink, and to conserve as much of this precious material as possible.

E13

Aquaculture

Air date: 1994-03-26

Once one has learned to harvest water, then the real fun begins with production of the myriad of foods and marketable commodities hosted by ponds and other water-rich environments.

E14

Planting In Drylands

Air date: 1994-04-02

There are a multitude of ways to harvest, conserve, and utilize water. These strategies apply to coastal regions or islands with with zero precipitation, arid lands, as well as to areas with plentiful seasonal rainfall.

E15

Drylands 1

Air date: 1994-04-09

As desert is rapidly claiming vast areas of our planet, millions are on the verge of starvation. Yet, crops which occur naturally in arid land can provide all necessary nutrition for people and animals. The strategies discussed arise from years of observation in the deserts of Australia and from the peoples of Kalahari.

E16

Drylands 2

Air date: 1994-04-16

... continuation of Drylands 1. Never, never irrigate the desert. The devastation caused by irrigation of arid land is irreparable. But there are alternatives: methods to set up a drought proof system. This is serious Permaculture!

E17

Working at Ground Level

Air date: 1994-04-23

A documentary on the permaculture work done in Ecuador by the Rainforest Information Center, Centro de Investigatión de los Bosques Tropicales.