Our
philosophy
I
think, living as we do at the cusp of one century and another, that we
have an opportunity to take the best of the previous century forward
with us into the new one. The discoveries made by Viktor Schauberger
are part of what I would like to see carried forward.
I
also think that we are living in exciting times. The
industrial-revolution view of planet Earth, as a resource to be
exploited without full consideration of the consequences, is in
retreat. A new paradigm is being developed on many fronts, building on
new insights (Chaos Theory, Gaia Theory, Morphic Fields, to name
a few) and revisiting old philosophies. The view that I am left with
is of life on earth as an integrated whole, which can be considered as
a single organism. This requires a new level of respect for Mother
Earth, and new approaches to working with her.
Regarding
the copper tools themselves, using them reminds me of an experience I
had a few years ago. For a while, I ate all my meals with chopsticks,
and became quite adept at balancing rice grains on the wooden sticks.
When I went back to using knives and forks, I can still remember the
physical discomfort of putting a piece of pronged metal in my mouth.
All I could taste was the grating harsh metal. However, I soon got
used to using them and re-learnt to ignore the metallic taste. I
wonder if the use of copper tools feels the same to the soil as
chopsticks did to me.
Jane
Cobbald
April
2001
Update,
January 2009
Setting
up Implementations has been a journey, a pleasure and a
privilege.
A
privilege in that I am associated with a product that works on
every level. There is no contradiction in me about it. What greater
job satisfaction can there be than to promote something that you feel
to be valid throughout? The tools work well physically - they are
sharp, hardwearing and a joy to work with. I know this from my own
experience and from conversations with many users over the last eight
years. And because the tools are made with love and care, and have
been developed from sound research, they have a beauty that shines
from the inside out.
It
has been a pleasure to meet so many new friends. I like my
customers, and enjoy talking to them. The idea of using bronze
implements to work the land is not exactly mainstream, and the people
who are drawn to them have an independence of outlook that I respect.
We have had some fascinating conversations, and it is heartening to
know that there are so many good people around.
The
journey has been the learning. I am an ex-teacher, ex-airfreight
clerk and ex-IT person, who had never set up a business before. And I
never dreamed that I would have a book published (about to go into its
second edition as I write). As I had not had any formal training in
how to run a business, I started with a clean sheet. The tools
themselves have an inherent honesty, a quality I also wanted to see
reflected in the running of the business. Otherwise I would not be
doing them justice. My job description seems to be to make sure that they
are well represented, and that they continue to be available and
accessible. The internet has been a huge help in this - in fact, I
doubt the business would have got off the launchpad without it. My
thanks to all of the supporters of the project along the way.
