Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

I'd answer no.  As for permaculture, my understanding is that, as developed 
by Holmgren and Mollison, it's more a sustainable, integrated homestead 
philosophy than a system for practical home food production. It takes money 
and years to develop. I don't know of any actual demonstration models in this 
country. If there are a few, then I'd have to ask what happened to all the 
other people who've completed those high dollar permaculture seminars.  Few 
of them actually practice permaculture.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our 
most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its 
renewal is our only hope.
   - Wendell Berry
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On 3/31/2006 at 4:27 PM Daniel Jenkins wrote:

>Hi there,  I am a new poster who is just getting back in to gardening
>after many years.  I have read several books now on permaculture and
>this is the direction I want to go, but I have only read, not been
>able to talk with anyone or see their gardens.  I am hoping I can
>find someone in my area (Georgetown divide in California) who is
>knowledgeable and can take me under their wing!  For now, I have the
>following question:  If my garden area is on a hillside, and I plant
>black locust trees or other nitrogen fixers above the garden area,
>will the nitrogen they "produce" be able to "run" downhill to the
>garden area?  Thank you all for any help you can give, Terry Jenkins