Arriving last night after dark at Koininia farm where the permaculture course is being held, was a breath of fresh air. The prettily painted signs told us we were entering another world and in a way we were. You can smell and feel the peace here.

Situated in over 500 acres, this Christian peace community is pretty laid back. It’s well known for it’s pecan trees… so finding pecans scattered on the ground was one of the many delights of this place..

I’m taking a permaculture design certificate course. It’s part of our grand plan to encourage people to grow food forest gardens everywhere. I’ll be blogging my experiences on a regular basis over the next two weeks… only two days to go and it begins…

Frank Herbert, author of Dune, used his writings to spread a spiritual vision in his stories of the desert planet Arrakis.

Part of this was foundated on the concept of permaculture.

‘The thing the ecologically illterate don’t realize about an eco-system’ Kynes said, “is that it’s a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a mis-step in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late …click the title to read more..