permaculture

The practice of gardening or farming with a view to creating a self-sustaining ecosystem, and possibly one that produces a reliable agricultural output.

Something something emergent properties.

The tendency of nature to pile accidents on accidents is really beautiful, I remember thinking about it on the hike we took on 2022-11-05. It was really lovely.

Permaculture also makes me think of cooking, and how the smooth running of cooking is something that follows from low-level details (because Reality is Surprisingly Detailed) that almost get chunked too fast to process that you're learning them. When we cooked for the first time in Sid's kitchen a little thing like water boiling at a different pace was enough to throw me off. Surprisingly fragile. (Thinking of cooking in this context makes me think of Ashok).

In the outskirts of Hyderabad there is a teaching farm for permaculture called Aranya Agricultural Alternatives with a dude named Narsanna in it.

Books recommended by Narsanna:

• Masanobu Fukuoka - The One-Straw Revolution

• Bill Mollison and David Holgren - Permaculture One

It should be noted that tropical permaculture differs importantly in particulars from temperate permaculture - which is to say, which biome you're in influences your strategies significantly. Discovering the parameters that determine these differences would let us derive first principles of ecology, and the mode of inquiry must necessarily be naturalistic and bottom-up. Like playing an interactive game.