Uploaded March 2014 | Updated September 2026, 14 minutes ago
A solid introduction to the principles, practices, and values of permaculture.
During this hour-long presentation Shultz will be covering the basic ethics of permaculture and how its systems are used to create productive landscapes. These systems are both resilient to disturbance and create an abundance of food, fuel, fiber, medicine, water, and other useful products while at the same time increasing soil fertility, reducing runoff, providing wildlife habitat, and increasing biodiversity.
Joshua Shultz is the owner of Cedar Creek Permaculture Farm in Delton, Michigan where he is working on farm-scale permaculture design, year-round aquaponics, and outside design work for businesses and individuals in the Southwest Michigan region. Schultz holds permaculture design certificates in tropical and sub-tropical permaculture techniques from Rancho Mastatal in Costa Rica, and more recently, a temperate region design certificate from Midwest Permaculture in Illinois. He practiced permaculture from 2009 to 2012 at the Cape Eleuthera Institute in The Bahamas before moving back to Michigan in the winter of 2012.
Recorded by Local Future's Aaron Wissner at the Pierce Cedar Creek Institute during the 2014 Sustainability Conference, March 15, 2014.
A solid introduction to the principles, practices, and values of permaculture.
During this hour-long presentation Shultz will be covering the basic ethics of permaculture and how its systems are used to create productive landscapes. These systems are both resilient to disturbance and create an abundance of food, fuel, fiber, medicine, water, and other useful products while at the same time increasing soil fertility, reducing runoff, providing wildlife habitat, and increasing biodiversity.
Joshua Shultz is the owner of Cedar Creek Permaculture Farm in Delton, Michigan where he is working on farm-scale permaculture design, year-round aquaponics, and outside design work for businesses and individuals in the Southwest Michigan region. Schultz holds permaculture design certificates in tropical and sub-tropical permaculture techniques from Rancho Mastatal in Costa Rica, and more recently, a temperate region design certificate from Midwest Permaculture in Illinois. He practiced permaculture from 2009 to 2012 at the Cape Eleuthera Institute in The Bahamas before moving back to Michigan in the winter of 2012.
Recorded by Local Future's Aaron Wissner at the Pierce Cedar Creek Institute during the 2014 Sustainability Conference, March 15, 2014.
