Adrien (ex-nico239) wrote:
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This no doubt also corresponds to a “clean” state of mind at the time.
Weeds are poo, they're dirty, there are bugs and microbes and maybe even viruses in them, who knows?
Not sure that our lazy tendency doesn't find some resistance on its way
It will be interesting to see the atmosphere in the conferences over the years.
Past the permanent craze, not sure that the "traditional" vegetable garden will not make a comeback in a few years, oddly under the impetus of certain "young people".
Speaking of young I'm having my first visit next week.
Informed by people from the valley, they are young people who come from another valley not very far away but more lenient and who wonder if they will be able to settle (a priori not as professionals) here because the climate there is harsher.
To be continued
1) I think there is an "Amish" side, with a lot of agronomic approximations (if I look between the lines)... But I admit that I don't learn anything from it so I'm not motivated to watching more than the half video I watched...
2)... rather a return to the earth in the "autonomist" but clean and well-meaning vein (come on, I'm betting a kopeck, that makes me think of a right-wing Catholic Versailles trend; I'm perhaps badly influenced by a couple that I received at his request to discuss their project and which came under this vein, quite surprising; interesting on the project, hyper-well studied, but humanly, I had trouble; moreover, a meal was hot enough when I said what I thought about this form of reactionary, backward and fascistic thinking!)
That said :
1) Let's not dream: the lazy way is ultra-minority! There must not be more than one garden in 1!!! And that's not going to change significantly.
2) "Permaculture on mounds" is already an outdated fashion (but I announced it as early as 2017 that it was "stillborn": a lot of work that brings no net benefit (I'm talking about building mounds ) = we inevitably drop, sooner or later; suaf "ecomuseum of permaculture", with paying trainees...
3) Even if he is "ultra-minority", I haven't - not yet ???? - the feeling that the lazy wave is declining: my book, although it is more than 4 years old, is still at the top of the rankings on Amazon, ahead of books by "potagers-youtubers" which have just been released; I still have a lot of requests for visits (but hey, the post-Covid effect is difficult to gauge)
4) I hope I have given lazy gardening more content than just a fad... I said well, I hope...