The Bathtub Worm Bin
November 23, 2013
We’re getting down to business.
November 23, 2013
We’re getting down to business.
These videos
serve a dual purpose. They serve to both give back and to work as a mutually
beneficial learning tool.
Giving Back
There are
three ethics in permaculture:
Care for the
earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply. This is the
first principle, because without a healthy earth, humans cannot flourish.
Care for the
people: Provision for people to access those resources necessary for their existence.
Return of
surplus: Reinvesting surpluses back into the system to provide for the first
two ethics. This includes returning waste back into the system to recycle into
usefulness.
The “Return of
Surplus” ethic is not all about giving your homegrown goodies away. It’s about
taking what you have gained from your efforts and putting the surplus back
(“back” is where you feel it should be) to promote a sustainable system. It
does not only deal with the “extra” tomatoes that you give all your neighbors.
Giving back from your sustainability can come from your gardening efforts, your
home efforts, your hobby efforts, your energy efforts and even your learning
efforts. I have learned so much from others (You Tube videos, Blogs, Web Sites,
Magazines, Books, Podcasts); it only makes “permaculture sense” to take what I
have learned and give that back.
The Mutually
Beneficial Learning Tool
Am I a
professional permaculture designer? No! Not even close. I am just getting
started on my permaculture adventure. However, I feel that if I learn something
from someone and then teach it to another, I have solidified that information
in my mind. Making these videos helps me organize the lessons I have learned,
repeat the information while practicing the fundamentals of the lessons learned
and to offer an avenue of motivation and criticism (I need all I can get of
both) from you the viewer.
By nature, we
humans want to share what we know. How many times have you been in a
conversation and all the while the other is speaking you’re thinking about what
you want to say? You Tube is a great avenue for others to tell the world what
they know. But also for the “others” to comment back and say, “Dude! That’s not
right at all.” OR “Have you considered ‘this’ or ‘that’?” The comments I
receive from you, the viewer, help me learn more and more about the information
I present.
This week we
are making a worm bin out of a bathtub. I filmed this video concurrently with
the last video I made but have been holding onto it for the past month. There
will be a follow-up video very soon showing the progress of the worm bin and
how it’s holding up.
