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Re:Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezin... by VBprogrammer on Saturday April 18, 2020 @06:05AM (#22906621)
Not sure if you've come come across it but Gabe Brown has done some interesting stuff in farm scale low input farming.

https://youtu.be/uUmIdq0D6-A

That said, I think there is a lot of interesting stuff in permaculture design. But in a lot of cases it is a bit of a pyramid scheme / agile consultancy feel going on.

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Re:Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezin... by hutzlibu on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:48AM (#22907700)
"But in a lot of cases it is a bit of a pyramid scheme / agile consultancy feel going on."

Definitely, Sepp Holzer is sadly a prominent example of this as well. There was a case of a new project, where a naive women, a true believer of permaculture, invested all her money in a permaculture school project under the guidance of Holzer, where all the ordinary farmers could learn how much more efficient permaculture is. And it failed spectacular and ended in court. [german wikipedia for more, english version is very small]

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