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  • From: "Elizabeth Pike" <pike AT always-online.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Production methods: tillage, beds, rows, etc.
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:47:57 -0500


To break new areas, we use a tractor. To do minor cultivation, I have a
Mantis. To do all else-hand tools.

I'm familiar with the edge principle as touted by Alan Chadwick/Jon Jeavons.
Is this the same in permaculture? What are "mandalas"?

Liz
Morningstar Gardens
Pollocksville, North Carolina


----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <london AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 1:25 AM
Subject: Production methods: tillage, beds, rows, etc.


>
> What tillage methods and equipment do you all use:
>
> tractor
> rototiller
> mule
> hand tools
> tractor + hand tools
> rototiller + hand tools
>
> How many primarily use hand tools? Raised beds, rows
> of varying width?
>
> I have plowing and cultivating done by a neighbor
> but all the rest is done by me with hand tools
> to dig and shape raised beds of varying lengths.
> Using the edge principle in permaculture would allow
> for the building of beds within mandalas. Some
> interesting possibilities there for companion and inter-cropping
> and recycling of nutrients between beds.
>
> LL
>
> Lawrence F. London, Jr. Venaura Farm
> http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden/documents/gardening-hand-tools.faq
> metalab.unc.edu/intergarden InterGarden
> metalab.unc.edu/permaculture PermaSphere
> metalab.unc.edu/intergarden/orgfarm AGINFO
> lflondon AT mindspring.com london AT metalab.unc.edu
>
>
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