Forest Gardening meets Deep and Personal Ecology

Permaculture is about reducing pressure on remaining forests by bringing productive gardens and nature to where the people live. We minimise soil loss and build multifuntional food forests. We maximise our productivity and ability to supply our own needs and take care of our own wastes locally.

In harmony with Harmony we design and create forest garden systems that imitate nature as found in Harmony's mature native forest. We aim to increase Harmony forests's ability to grow food for humans, while keeping its own inherent integrity.

We utilise self-renewing natural systems of food production: Self-seeding annuals, perennials, trees and herbs and self seeding annuals; choosing species high in nutrition and medicinal value, for those who live at and visit Harmony.

Permaculture reduces waste and disharmony by integrating more people into the natural world on which their survival depends. "It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order." Mollison 1988

We do this consciously with All Beings present.

It is this loving relationship with All Beings which is our greatest gift and our greatest sustenance.

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From “Theosophical Siftings” Volume - 1 - 1888

" Elementals" is a term applied to the nature spirits, the living existences which belong peculiarly to the elements they inhabit; " Matter is connected with Spirit by an intermediate principle which it receives from this Spirit . . . Each living being is connected with the Macrocosmos and Microcosmos by means of this intermediate element or Soul, belonging to the Mysterium [Page 16] Magnum from whence it has been received, and whose form and qualities are determined by the quality and quantity of the spiritual and material elements". . . . From this we may infer that the "Elementals", properly speaking, are the "Soul-forms" of the elements they inhabit — the activities and energies of the World-Soul differentiated into forms, endowed with more or less consciousness, and capacities for "feeling", and hours of enjoyment, or pain.

But these, never, or rarely, entering any more deeply into dense matter than enabled so to do by their aerial invisible bodies, do not appear upon our gross physical plane otherwise than as forces, energies, or influences. Their Soul-forms are the intermediate link between matter and spirit, resembling the Soul-forms of animals and men, which also form this intermediate link. The difference being that the souls of animals and men have enveloped themselves in a casing of dense matter for the purposes of existence upon the more external planes of life."

Symbiosis is "a condition which arises among a group of organisms permitting them to live together in harmony to their mutual benefit" p. 14, The Weed Problem: A New Approach by F.C. King.

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