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  • From: "Laura McKenzie" <laurabrownmckenzie@worldnet.att.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Gardeners use roots to keep past alive
  • Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 23:10:35 -0600

Paul, I wonder if the book gives more details as to the methods Mr Brascoupe uses. I'd be very interested in learning more about exactly what he does.

Thanks for the article.

Laura
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Paul offered:
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Oh, the gardens she tours! They are as multifarious as the people who
cultivate and cherish them. The first garden is that of Clayton Brascoupe,
a Native American living in Tesuque Pueblo, N.M. He aims with considerable
success to restore traditional Three Sisters practices -- gardens
interplanted with corn, squash and beans -- to this arid land. Why aim for
restoration? Haven't the three sisters been the prime crops since time
immemorial? As she does on every garden visit, Klindienst looks here into
the history of this region -- the coming of the Spaniards, their
introduction of foreign livestock and crops, and the native population's
loss of much, from language to religion. Brascoupe, understanding that the
land is sacred, teaches several methods by which it can maintain its
integrity: biointensive gardening, which restores soil, and permaculture,
"a design system for creating sustainable human environments."

rest of article at
http://www.newsobserver.com/1127/story/465798.html






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