Appalachia's Apothecary: Gardening for Paradise in Giduwagi-Appalachia Bioregion, USA скачать в хорошем качестве

Appalachia's Apothecary: Gardening for Paradise in Giduwagi-Appalachia Bioregion, USA

This short documentary/ethnographic film is part of a larger in-progress documentary series, Apple-achia, that investigates and showcases agricultural biodiversity in southern Appalachia. Appalachia has been documented as the most biodiverse foodshed in the US, Canada, and northern Mexico. Appalachia’s Apothecary presents Mountain Gardens in Celo, North Carolina, the 40-year permaculture/paradise gardening project of Joe Hollis. “We want to save the world, and we want to save ourselves. It’s the same thing. The problems confronting us are enormous and at every level: personal, social, planetary. I will spare you a list. My aim is to suggest that they are all symptoms of one problem, and to propose a solution. The problem: to find a way to live on earth which promotes our health and happiness/is conducive to the full development of our innate potential, and at the same time, is “democratic”, that is, available to all/not using more than our share, and harmonious with the biosphere’s evident drive toward increasing diversity, complexity, stability. Our world is being destroyed, in the final analysis, by an extremely misguided notion of what constitutes a successful human life. Materialism is running rampant and WILL CONSUME EVERTHING, because its hunger will never be sated by consumption. Human life has become a cancer on the planet, gobbling up all the flows of matter and energy, poisoning with our waste. What can stop this monster? Nothing. Just this: walk away from it. It is time, indeed time is running out, to abandon the entire edifice of civilization/the State/the Economy and walk (don’t run) to a better place: home, to Paradise. Paradise is, first of all, a garden. A garden in which everything is there for the taking.” --Joe Hollis (2020)