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Chris Dixon's avatar

I got so into the story of the signs that I forgot to mention, towards the end of the piece, that of course all the European funding that paid for the expansion of infrastructure dried up completely after Brexit!Without those great wodges of dosh sloshing around to keep it all going, NRW was well and truly stuffed.

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GARY FINCH's avatar

Not for nothing is 'maintenance' a key aspect of any well thought out permaculture design, and the aspect of 'access' features early on in Yeomans 'scale of permanence'. 'Maintenance' was given a whole episode in Stewart Brand's BBC series 'How Buildings Learn' - some great examples in there where things can go very badly wrong through a lack of attention, though my favourite example has to be the story of the beetle infected 'oak beams of new college, oxford', whereby back in the 14c when it was built the trees that would provide the replacment beams were planted as a grove of oaks at the time the college was founded - that is excellent forward thinking and a great example of having resources at the ready that cannot be stolen (easily), or as was the case of brexit funding, disappear, and will hold their material value which Holmgren has pointed out is a measure of real capital - that and the knowledge and skill to use them

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