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  • From: Paul Wheaton <paul@richsoil.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] thoughts and references
  • Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:26:07 -0700 (PDT)


--- J Hobbs <hobbsj@efn.org> wrote:

>
> --
> Hello All,
>
> I'm back reading this list after several months absence. Here are a
> few thoughts and references...
>
> * Quite the verbiage surrounding the cost/pay of a PDC...seems the
> key is no dogma- no absolutes-- what works with one region/person
> will not in another.
>
> * I appreciate reading about the life of Meg in Kansas--we need
> examples of how these whole integrated systems work... beautiful--
> thanks, Meg.
>
> * References for Anne:
> * Water For Every Farm. P. A and Ken Yeomans.
> * Earth Ponds. Matson, Tim. Countryman. in McClarney
>
> * Response to Sandra regarding the question: Who was the seed
> Keeper? (Sandra Beerman)
>
> Below is an excerpt of an article I wrote for Oregon Tilth's In Good
> Tilth 2004 summer publication.
> Women on the Land
> "..... My curiosity of what roles women played in agriculture have
> led me to this research....
> In developing tribes and nations the cultivation of soil was
> primarily in women's hands. Many ancient religious myths credit the
> invention of agriculture to the goddess. For example, in Egyptian
> records the goddess Isis is referred to as the inventor of
> agriculture and in Mesopotamian the goddess Ninlil was revered for
> teaching people to farm. The ancient Greeks called Gaea the Earth
> goddess and "Great Mother," and the Romans called her "Terra Mater,"
> the earth mother.
> As you see, many names represent women's connection to the land.
> Scientist Nancy Tanner wrote that in earliest civilization, "Women
> were the gatherers," which played a critical role in the evolution of
> the species. The children of these women shared food and improved
> gathering techniques. Women planted seeds in their encampments and
> began to tame young animals as they did their children.
> This evolutionary period represents the birth of agrarian culture. As
> food gatherers, inventions attributed to women include the digging
> stick, carrying sling, sickle and other knives. Other discoveries
> connected to food processing and preservation were the mortar and
> pestle, drying, roasting, grinding and fermenting technologies, and
> the storage of food in baskets or clay-lined storage pits. Women also
> discovered propagation by shoots and cuttings, seed selection and the
> construction of seedling beds. Cultivation methods credited to women
> include the use of ash as fertilizer, work tools such as the hoe,
> spade, shovel and simple plough, fallowing and crop rotation,
> mulching, terracing, contour planting, irrigation and land
> restoration through tree planting. Women are known for domesticating
> the eight most important grains: rice, maize, barley, oats, sorghum,
> millet, rye and wheat.
> According to Murdock's ethnographic atlas, in one half of the 142
> advanced horticultural societies, farming was the exclusive domain of
> women. Women have tended the soil, garden and farm since the earliest
> societies."......
>
> A few resources:
> With These Hands: Women Working on the Land by Joan Jensen, 1987
> The Chalice and the Blade Our History Our Future Riane Eisler
> 'Standard cross-Cultural Sample', Ethnology, Vol. 8 No.
> 4,pp.329-369, 1969 G.P. Murdock & D.C. White.
> 'Daughters of Isis, Daughters of Demeter: When Women Sowed and
> Reaped, A. Stanley, in J . Rothschild (ed.)
> Women, Technology and Innovation, New York: Pergamon, 1982
> Staying Alive Women, Ecology and Development Vandana Shiva
> )The Farm Bureau through Three Decades O.M. Kile The Waverly Press
>
>
> * Also: I recently was asked to do a Permaculture Design in Western
> Kentucky-- I'd rather refer them on to someone who lives in that
> area... any recommendations?
>
>
> In hopes of Peace and a sane outcome for the U.S. election,
> Please VOTE!
>
> Jude
> Agro-Ecology Northwest Oregon
> www.cascadiapermaculture.com
>
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