Seeing the potential for growing food in seemingly inhospitable landscapes has been one of the great gifts of the permaculture design and educator’s course I’ve been taking since last Spring. Learning how to look at desiccated soil and see not only depletion but possibility made our stay in the desert deeply stimulating for me. It helps that I’m reading a lot of books on regenerative agriculture and indigenous knowledge as we travel.
My course instructor asked me to put together a presentation to share with our group for a round of Pechakucha presentations and I felt called to share some of what I’ve been learning and pondering as we canvas the American Southwest.
Pechakucha is a Japanese term for “chit chat”. Presentations comprise 20 slides, with 20 seconds of narration for each slide. The entire thing takes 10 minues so there’s little chance of either boredom setting in, or so much information that the viewers/listeners become overwhelmed. Pechakucha.com lets you build presentations for free after you create an account on their website, thankfully, you can re-record the audio as many times as necessary, either one slide at a time or the whole thing at once. This feature came in extremely handy since either my signal wasn’t strong enough to save my progress, or when I relistened to my recordings, I could hear Honey banging around in the background. It’s not always easy to share our small space!
I’ve decided to share the presentation here for anyone who might be curious. I expect that permaculture and questions of sustainability and land regeneration will begin to appear more frequently on this blog as I continue delving deeper and deeping into the subject matter.
Presentation:
Creative strategies for growing food in hot, dry lands
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