{"id":3705,"date":"2009-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/permaculture-organics-gardening\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:20:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:20:16","slug":"permaculture-organics-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/permaculture-organics-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Permaculture, Organics &#038; Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Mollison says, \"Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability,<br \/>\n    and resilience of natural ecosystems.\"<\/p>\n<p>And David Holmgrem states that Permaculture involves \"Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while<br \/>\n    yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.\" &amp; \"He sees permaculture as the use of systems thinking and design<br \/>\n    principles that provide the organising framework for implementing the above vision.\" <\/p>\n<p>So if you want to build bio-harmonic housing, grow healthy food, live attuned to the land in an organic and sustainable way, permaculture, gives you the<br \/>\n    basic blue-print, tools and know how to empower your dream and manifest it. <\/p>\n<p>Check the calandar of events too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permaculture.org.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.permaculture.org.nz<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>To obtain a NZ Magazine to Grow Organic Food and learn of people in your area go to :- &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicnz.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.organicnz.org<\/a><br \/>\n    \n<\/p>\n<p>The Soil &amp; Health Association of New Zealand Inc was founded in 1941. The founding committee were concerned at the poor state of national nutrition<br \/>\n    due to the low priority given to sustainability, organic farming and growing practices that were happening even in those times. <\/p>\n<p>ORGANICNZ is an excellent magazine, with superb articles on all aspects of soils, composting, mulching, growing, grafting, pruning, germinating seedlings,<br \/>\n    harvesting, extraction, drying, storage as well as animal farming practices.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest magazine of its kind in NZ.<\/p>\n<p>Readying NZ to become organic by 2020, it is also involved in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keeping NZ GE Free<\/li>\n<li>Reducing the harm and eliminating the risk of pesticides in NZ<\/li>\n<li>Methyl Bromide press releases<\/li>\n<li>Endoslfan - New Zealand needs to ban this chemical<\/li>\n<li>Aspartame - artificial sweetener - a risk to our health?<\/li>\n<li>Stopping the Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill<\/li>\n<li>Country of Origin Labelling<\/li>\n<li>Campaign against the mandatory fortification of bread with folic acid <\/li>\n<li>Halting the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement TPPA.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n    <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicnz.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.organicnz.org<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permaculture or Permanent Agriculture is becoming more embedded in sustainable practices globally and here in NZ. Created by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, in the mid 1970\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}