Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Carrie Shepard <carrieshepard@yahoo.com>]

Ok,

at the risk of showing my own lack of intelligence, I must weigh in here.

 

For me, reading Bill Mollison's permaculture books helped me think and observe what was going on in my garden more than any other gardening books did.

 

The individual ideas of stacking, watching for patterns, and zones related to house position were especially enlightening to me.   I think it was the permaculture literature that also encouraged me to watch for the whole life cycle of things with an eye to being the best steward. 

 

I've since come across similar statements in Joel Salatin's or someone else's writings about reducing the outside inputs by utilizing as many on-site resources in as many different ways as possible...

 

All the social engineering and marketing of permaculture, I just ignore.

 

Carrie