[permaculture] Tending the Wild
Rain Tenaqiya
raincascadia at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 17 15:42:45 EDT 2009
I just finished Tending the Wild, by Kat Anderson, and feel it is an essential text for permaculturists around the world, not just in California. The idea that you can creat a garden of Eden and then just wack and few plants here and there while harvesting food ignores the dynamic and nonlinear nature of Nature. Many plants respond to pruning and burning by increasing their output, while many require it to stay free of pests and diseases. I'm having to admit that many of the "rape and scrape" practices of conventional farming have good justifications, though I still believe we can find more sustainable and integrated ways of achieving the same goals.
As for Douglas-fir, was it in Cascadia after the ice age before the last ice age? It's probably been coming and going for hundreds of thousands of years, no?
Rain
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