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Permaculture is viewed by some as a “hippie topic” but its founder Bill Mollison was anything but a hippie.  Bill spent his early life as a hunter of big game in Tasmania, later worked as a logger cutting trees for the construction boom of the mid century.  He eventually realized the unsustainable nature of man kinds “progress” in both agriculture and lifestyle and spent a few years as a hermit studying the forest. Later upon his return to society he stated after his transformational time in the forest, “I decided I could either sit back and let the bastards roll … Continue reading →