Jamaican Till I Die!

I often wonder what would be required for a person to feel Happy and Content. I know what makes one person happy and content, may not make another person happy and content. We might all live in the same country or on the same street or even in the same house, but we all have different life experiences, or we can interpret the same life experiences differently. For the most part our society conditioned us to believe that access to a continuous stream of increasing wealth and material goods is what is needed for a person to be happy and content. Children are being conditioned to equate material things with love. For example, some might think that they are loved, if their parents buy them the new iPhone and without it life is not worth living.   What I realized is that this conditioning is often the main source of our misery and unhappiness. No matter how much increasing wealth and material goods we accumulate. It is never enough and adds more complexity to our lives. The fear of...

MY land has a rich agricultural history. From being a sugar plantation for decades to planting everything from pineapples to cocoa, potatoes, bananas almost everything you can think of was planted on my land for hundreds of years. All that history has gone into making the soil especially the burning and decomposition of sugar cane which is rich in various minerals and many other nitrogen fixing plants. A section of land was left to the mercy of nature to see how it would naturally evolve overtime. A very big part of Permaculture is to understand the natural evolution of the environment, so one could identify the positives and the negatives. The beneficial and the non-beneficial that make up the ecological system and micro-climate. To observe how it affects the development of the land over time. Nature knows best and is the perfect teacher if we take the time to observe, learn and respect it. We must use nature as a guideline and teacher of true sustainability. Dense Food Forest, ...