Introduction to water management in Traditional Ancient Cultures.
For more the 8000 years, agriculture methods based on an special water management have been used by several cultures all over the earth. Some of them are still alive in China, India, Mexico, Bolivia, Siam, Pacific Islands, etc. Those methods show by themselves sustainability and care for the land, big production & diversity. Western culture is trapped in the industrialised paradigm, far away from those awesome systems. However, there are some “westerns” already working with those principles already as Sepp Holzer and Haikai Tane.
About the facilitator: Ricardo Valbuena, a Colombian biologist/permaculturist, is in NZ learning from experts about sustainable living & new alternatives for food production. He did a course with Haikai Tane, expert in Terraquaculture, who is connecting Chinese Ancient Knowledge with the western world.
Ricardo will be showing a film and speaking about his experience of the most recent Terraquaculture course by Haikai Tane at the Environment Centre at Riverton tonight, Sunday 1 August at around 7:00pm. Call the Centre (032348717) for details. You are most welcome to join us. It'll be very interesting.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
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Duh, I thought he was speaking Monday night! Though was too crook to go. Hope it was a good talk. Juliet
Hi Juliet - Ricardo was very interesting and the approach he described quite different from the 'western' model we usually see and use. He began his talk by describing the relationship the Chinese see between the phoenix (sun) and the dragon (water) and all of the processes that derive from that. We watched several very good short videos that Ricardo has collected during his travels,on agricultural/horticultural/permacultural/aquacultural practices in England, Central America, India and Austria!
It was a pretty stimulating evening. have you seen the water crystal photography of the Japanese researcher? Pretty eye-opening. We are planning to show those and other movies here at the Centre sometime before Spring, so I can let you know if you like.
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