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Mark’s Musings–Defining Permaculture.
Windekind Home Mark’s musings, Defining Permaculture Once in a while an idea comes along that is the result of a long incubation, embracing the labors and thinking of the past while opening doors for fresh opportunity in the future. The best yet example is the concept of Permaculture that started to show up around the…
Read MoreFurther Ventures into Permaculture
Windekind Home Whole System Design—utilizing Zones. See our Zone Map The placement of environmental and social elements (i.e. trees, open space, plants, buildings) is fundamental to the whole system design (Permaculture) approach at Windekind because we seek to optimize the best relationships between elements with the least work and costs. This means designing with the…
Read More“Living Design” in Context: Empowerment at Windekind Commons
Windekind Home Not Everybody gets to be a locomotive Engineer, at Windekind we empower our visitors, after careful instruction, with the ability to run trains/ In traditional housing developments, the governance model is one in which the developer, whose motives are profit-based versus community-based, makes all the land use, design, and construction decisions for…
Read More“Kindness, when given away, keeps coming back.” Amish Proverb
Windekind Home Marijke and I have always been at home in Amish communities, starting in 1963, when we were exploring a country lane near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and an observant Amish farmer noticed our curiosity in a water powered pump mechanism and invited us to join a nearby wedding…
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