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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: emitch@att.net, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Why Bother With Permaculture?
  • Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 12:26:23 -0600



http://www.notill.org/LE_Articles/V3N1A2_Derpsch.pdf
http://www.rolf-derpsch.com/profile.htm


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/22/2008 at 1:09 PM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>You wrote: "I rely on an unbroken line of growers and writers from Sir
>Albert Howard to Chadwick and Jeavons, to the Rodales and Eliot Coleman,
>to Ken Hargescheimer and Rolf Derpsh."
>
>Well, I've heard of them, and read virtually everything they wrote (and
>Mollison and Lancaster, too), but I've never heard of Rolf Derpsh. Please
>enlighten.
>
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tradingpost
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Why Bother With Permaculture?
>
>
>
> Brad is good, got his first volume from him a couple years ago in Abq. I
>differ on them (permaculture seminars) making a living doing what they
>believe in, since the ones I've heard of don't practice it, or they only
>dabble in it. And Mollison himself has had serious fights with American
>promoters of permaculture. I agree the concepts are needed. But
>sustainably produced and affordable food right now for the masses is still
>our number one agricultural need, and permaculture isn't meant to deal
>with that. It's a design system, a theory, not a plan for high,
>sustainable production from the least land. For my part I practice what I
>promote, a form of profitable, affordable biointensive which is organic
>no-till plus other proven practices. I rely on an unbroken line of growers
>and writers from Sir Albert Howard to Chadwick and Jeavons, to the Rodales
>and Eliot Coleman, to Ken Hargescheimer and Rolf Derpsh.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
>






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