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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: pcdb <pcdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcdb] Other DB Designs
  • Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:12:43 -0400

Paul Cereghino wrote:

I get the feeling its more keyed to large scale planting of single crops so has a different focus to permaculture design.



I know a faculty at University of Washington that helped on this. One of the functions was to support revegetation. Even after 10 questions the species lists don't reflect much subtlety, and no consideration of common community associations. The only design criteria is likelihood of species adaptation to site conditions. Worse than a designer, better than nothing. It is evidence of how difficult it is to use plant preference data to model design.

This brings up ideas discussed briefly during the other project's development:

Landforms, features, existing plantings (orchards, forest gardens, specimen plantings, herb spirals, etc.) and cropping data for small farm, homestead or pc/eco-community common gardenspace entered into the PCDB using GIS technology to track cropping schemes and crop rotations and more.
For market farm this would be useful when planning
companion/intercropping/succession/rotation/guild
schemes for each season; also to keep track on crop performance in a given planting area and how much of which crop which was planted where, seed germination and harvest time as well (useful when planning for overwintered crops)
This would be very useful for pc/eco communities, market farms and gardens
and CSA's for crop planning and performance.

LL
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