Integrated Permaculture Systems on a 1/10th Acre Urban Lot - Victoria, BC
In this video we wanted to share an inspiring tour of our good friends' Chris & Susannah Adam's family home. On a 1/10th acre, they, along with their children, raise chickens, quail, ducks, rabbits, fruit trees, intensive annual gardens and have the best two-storey living willow structures we've ever sat in!
Once a vegan, Chris now finds himself raising meat with compassion as part of an integrated front-yard fertility system for mixed vegetable & fruit production. This conscious food/animal rearing choice is not a prescription for everyone, but is made using an ethical & ecological lens that works for his family.
He introduced us to the words of Kahlil Gibrán:
“When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart. By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too shall be consumed. For the law that delivers you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.”
Enjoy the tour and hopefully you will get some ideas for your yard too!