??Boyden Library in Foxboro at 2 pm Sunday, April 17, 2016.??
??
New Forest Farm, ??Mark Shepard in Viola, WI
There seems to be no end to the very real ecological and agricultural emergencies that confront the earth. It can be depressing…and overwhelming and we wonder if there are really any solutions.
The Green Reel Collaborative will be screening a film called Inhabit A Permaculture Perspective April 17, 2016.
Director Costa Boutsikaris found answers in a practice called permaculture. Permaculture, a compound amalgam of ???permanent??? and ???agriculture,??? encompasses the idea of creating a regenerative AGRICULTURE that has the PERMANENCE and resilience of nature. What he finds so compelling and different about the Permaculture movement is its beautiful vision of a resilient society and the clear roadmap it offers for getting there. ???It is a design framework that looks to ecosystems for inspiration, using natural principles to weave human systems into the landscape.???
He found that Permaculture wasn???t limited to farming and gardening???it could also be applied to how we design our homes, our energy systems, our economies, and ultimately, our culture.. While the modern environmental movement has focused on the idea of lowering our footprint and being ???less bad,??? the Permaculture movement attempts to reverse that narrative by teaching how we might make the inevitable impact of our footprint a healing force.
The film will be followed by discussion led by Sam Billings who farms at Crystal Spring Earth Learning Center in Plainville using some of the techniques of permaculture to build his farm.
This will be the final film in our spring series. It will be shown at the Boyden Library in Foxboro at 2 pm Sunday, April 17, 2016.??