indigenous science Archives - Earthaven Ecovillage https://www.earthaven.org/tag/indigenous-science/ An aspiring ecovillage in a mountain forest setting near Asheville, North Carolina. Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:47:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.2 What Is Permaculture? https://www.earthaven.org/ecological-design/permaculture/what-is-permaculture/ https://www.earthaven.org/ecological-design/permaculture/what-is-permaculture/#respond Tue, 18 May 2021 19:46:19 +0000 https://www.earthaven.org/?p=4616 Our world is always looking for things to be boiled down to a soundbite. Sometimes complex things can’t be conveyed in a summary or a sentence. I recently found a phrase from an article entitled The Indigenous Science of Permaculture by Rohini Walker that, for me, conveys the essence of Permaculture: “An indigenous science of working in partnership […]

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Our world is always looking for things to be boiled down to a soundbite. Sometimes complex things can’t be conveyed in a summary or a sentence. I recently found a phrase from an article entitled The Indigenous Science of Permaculture by Rohini Walker that, for me, conveys the essence of Permaculture:

“An indigenous science of working in partnership with cycles of nature.”

The wisdom of this sentence is so important.

Two reasons we’re offering the upcoming Decolonizing Permaculture series are:

  1. To emphasize that permaculture’s origins emerge from indigenous technologies and practice. Permaculture has not been great at accentuating that important point, which can often look like appropriation, extraction, and arrogance.
  2. To acknowledge that sometimes when disconnected folks embrace permaculture, they can implement it with a colonized mindset. This can often look like encouraging perfection, black and white thinking, and systems that are not fully in integrity.

During the workshop series, which runs for five Saturdays from May 22 to June 19, we’ll explore the permaculture principles through an equity lens with three amazing instructors. You can meet two of the them — Amakiasu Turpin-Howze and Tyson Sampson — in this interview:
Sera Deva interviewing Amakiasu Turpin-Howze and Tyson Sampson
Please check out the workshop description and instructor bios of Amakiasu, Tyson, and Lee on our website. We’re so excited to be offering this series.

Martin Prechtel is a mentor and dear teacher to several people at Earthaven. He says:

“Every individual in the world, regardless of cultural background or race, has an indigenous soul struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile environment created by that individual’s mind. A modern person’s body has become a battleground between the rationalist mind — which subscribes to the values of the machine age — and the native soul. This battle is the cause of a great deal of spiritual and physical illness.”

Blessings on all of our journeys to wellbeing. Whatever path we are walking.

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