Hands-on permaculture giveaway
I know that some of you missed out on
our lightning-fast
Egyptian-onion giveaway this year and still wanted to try these perennial onions
in your garden, so I saved back a bunch of bottom bulbs and Daddy
harvested his top bulbs to prepare for another giveaway.
This giveaway is much different than our usual, so please read
through all of the rules below before entering. (And don't
skip this post if you aren't interested in Egyptian onions ---
I'll give you a signed copy of The
Weekend Homesteader instead if you win and aren't an onion
person.)
Background
A couple of months
ago, I started thinking about how so much of the
permaculture-education material I read and watch is theoretical,
which really bogs down the beginner. Wouldn't it be
wonderful if there was a resource showing permaculture techniques
that have succeeded or failed in real, hands-on
applications? I can come up with lots of examples in my own
garden, but I'd love to hear from the larger permaculture
community.
How
to enter
Your entry in this
giveaway will consist of an email to anna@kitenet.net with a concise but
complete explanation of a permaculture technique you've tried out
and why it did or didn't work for you. If you don't want to
write about a specific technique, you can instead write about how
your homestead exemplifies one of the twelve
permaculture principles.
In either case,
please include your location, your gardening zone, at least one
photo (more is better), and anything else you consider
relevant. I'll want to be able to use your information on
this blog and perhaps in an ebook, so by entering, you'll be
agreeing to allow me to make use of your text and images with no
further compensation. (I don't mind if you use the same
information elsewhere, though, which I think means you're
licensing your intellectual property under a Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.) Please let me know if
you'd rather remain anonymous or whether I can use your first
and/or last name when attributing your work as well.
Winners
All entries must hit
my email inbox by July 31 at midnight, and once they're in, I'll
pick my favorites. Depending on how many boxes of onions we
have (at least six and probably quite a lot more), everyone may
win, or only the best entries may get prizes. And, as I
mentioned above, I'll mail you a signed copy of my book instead if
you win and would rather read than plant.
I'm looking forward
to hearing about your permaculture experiments!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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