pcplantdb

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

> QUICK RESPONSE TO LAWRENCE IN CAPS:
>
> Relationships matching could, in reality,  become  the heart of PIW or 
> at least one of its most popular and most
> often used features. 
> BECOME THE HEART?  IT *IS* THE HEART ;)

It started out as a permaculture plants database and is still mostly 
that. So what I am talking about is extending it to include 
relationships matching, and matching not just plants, animals, insects, 
other lifeforms but data representing important cultural requirements as 
well, meaning matching environmental factors to those required to 
sustain the ecological niche of a lifeform or lifeforms as in a guild or 
body of lifeforms matched in a relationship that require similar 
environmental conditions for survival.

> I wonder what Stephanie thinks of extending PIW functionality and data 
> gathering into this area since she was interested in SARE funding for 
> PIW use by market farmers
> at one time.
> YES, I WAS INTERESTED IN THIS POSSIBILITY.  AND STILL AM.  BUT AFTER
> DISCUSSING WITH FOLKS AND DOING A BIT OF RESEARCH, I DECIDED IT'S SOMETHING TO
> PURSUE IN THE FUTURE ONCE WE HAVE SOMETHING SOLID.  

Valuable data can be gathered from ag people who will become avid future 
users of PIW while fulfilling the terms of some sustainable agriculture 
grant as PIW is in an early development stage. I think this is well 
worth doing. Maybe someone else could be found to get a SARE grant or 
funding from a similar source to add farmer-specific resources to PIW.