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  • From: Scott Vlaun <scott@moosepondarts.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Re: Looking for arracacha, maca & melloco
  • Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:14:55 -0700

Nick,

I suspect that the two might not really want to get married, although there's no reason why the two concepts can't live in peaceful co-existence. I've studied and photographed many of Mushroom's Kinship layouts as well as Gabriel Howearth's massive kinship garden in Baja (for an as yet unrealized book). I've learned a great deal from them on a very intuitive level in terms of how plants evolve, how they are related and the amazing breadth of diversity that exists. The Kinship gardens are amazing tools for education and genetic preservation, but they're not the kind of perennial polycultures that are called for in a permaculture paradigm. It seems to me that one calls for bringing disparate species together in symbiotic relationships to increase productivity, while the other places closely related species together for the sake of taxonomic comparison, preservation and wonder. Kinship Gardening is definitely not companion planting.

Personally, I'd like to have a kinship layout of all the plants that will thrive in my bioregion alongside my highly productive guilded food forest. Right now I need to get all my tomatoes and peppers started.

Scott


On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 01:28 PM, Nick Routledge wrote:

how I might
marry kinship gardening to the harmonic chaostrophy of a guilded food
forest. I suspect it's an initiation-by-doing thang and I ain't there yet.
In the meantime, I'd _love_ to see more about the topic on the web.

n.





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