Intangible Yields In Permaculture: Shaped by Our Perception
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- Let's talk intangible yields in a permaculture system! In permaculture, the principle "obtain a yield" is often understood through the lens of harvests of food, fuel, fiber. But there are intangible yields as well that are just as important to consider.
Let's take an example from my recent trip to Hood River: when hiking in nature, there is an obvious yield of enjoying interacting with the ecosystem through exercise and perhaps gleaning berries and such. But there are also yields in the way we perceive and process the world around us. HOW we perceive and process and enjoy our interactions with nature shapes what yield we receive. Do we interact as scientists, designers, artists, storytellers?
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I do what you do - I identify plants as I go along. That definitely started when I began learning plants for gardening and foraging. I'm always that annoying tour member asking what plants are! I want to know what I'm looking at. I just crave that knowledge. I've known that was important to me for a while, but it came into sharp relief when I started to have some brain fog this spring. I hate not knowing how to greet a plant. I look at it and want to say hello, but don't know its name! So I've had to adjust and just experience the plant without naming it. That alone is quite an exercise in patience, which I think I can count as an intangible yield. Lessons abound.
learning to identify plants is useful also for navigation - it helps remembering places by the plants there occurring.
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As a forager, I tend to identify and look for potential edible plants, I also enjoy photography and look for things that would make a nice photograph. I also like to look for the fantasy in nature and enjoy the moss covered logs, hole in trees where you could imagine fairies hiding, the bluebelles in spring when everything looks mystical and mysterious. I remember one early morning walk when I didn't realize how close I had gotten to a deer until I heard him snort and then take off.
Ha ha ha. I am with you. Identifying a plant and forming a more intimate relationship with how and why it exists is how I find meaning and placement in the natural world. I am also an artist, as well as a certified horticulturist. Creatively, I am focused on the patterns and colours in the natural world, and want to bring those into my art, rather than being scene oriented. As a neurodivergent, I have little to no desire to render faces in art. People are not an inspiration for me.
I’m new-ish to hiking and probably lean more towards your husband’s lens when I’m out and about. I do try to take in the plants as well - just being present to nature is so good, obviously, but also have that sense of making sure we don’t get lost.
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It's funny. I do all 3 (navigating, species recognition and their interactions and the artistic view with light, composition and details). Sometimes , when I'm with someone else I forget to navigate and then they ask me something about where to go... 😅
It's funny bc I can't draw anymore, I have nerve damage in my hands and I haven't in 15 years but I still think like Ruth. My dad was literally a cartographer lol