permaculture

[Miekal And <dtv@mwt.net>]

Im not content to see this "discussion" about guilds laid to rest yet. 
Dan H mentioned that he thot it was one of Mollison's weaker ideas, that
there are no ready made answers when it comes to species selection.  &
while I agree that nothing replaces knowing the plants & what will work
& what wont work, I also think that there are ways of thinking of design
that build upon nature & evolutionary affinities that some plants have
with other plants.  Companion planting has been mentioned tho in my book
I think of garden annuals.  I am also quite interested in designs that
further the ideas of Alan Kapuler & Olaf Brentmar & co-evolutionary
gardening, which I see as a taxonomical guild system.  

Also for the record I wonder if the notion of guilds actually originates
from Mollison, I believe that indigenous agriculture has been enlarging
upon these notions forever, for instance the 3 sisters & medicine
gardens are 2 that come to mind.  But then what is a guild?


Miekal And
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