permaculture

["April Sampson-Kelly" <askpv@ozemail.com.au>]

lets not forget fungi as indicators too,
in the first 
2 years we had only white fungi on the trees
now there is RED!!! which, 
according to at least two references I can dig up
for the sceptical in 
my
chaotic office here,
Red fungi indicates cleaner air than white fungi, 
no fungi in a high
rainfall area is a concern for worry
about high 
pollution levels.
It seems that our plantings along the road are screening 
pollution better
than anticipated.
April

April Sampson-Kelly 
ADPA,BCA,MCA,GradSci,PDC
LC permaculture Visions
askpv@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~askpv
GOOD 
PLANETS ARE HARD TO FIND
-----Original Message-----
From: YankeePerm@aol.com <YankeePerm@aol.com>
To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu 
<permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu>
Date: 
Monday, 17 November 1997 1:55
Subject: Re: Indicator 
plants


>
>In a message dated 11/15/97 8:54:56 PM, you 
wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Thanks to Dan Hemenway for 
sharing his observations etc. on indicator
>plants.
>>This is 
real good stuff!
>>Hope others will comment and add to the knowledge 
base.
>>Apparently Dan has offered to assemble such a list...that list 
I believe
>>would be of great benefit to us all.. 
frank
>
>OK, I'll go along with that with the understanding that we 
are free to
>publish any and all material we receive in this regard as 
well as taking
>responsibility to repost it on the mailing list in a 
timely fashion.  If I
do
>NOT post a list, it is because I did not 
get anything worth coalating.  I'm
>not going to post any indicator 
plant nominations unless there are soild
>references that say exactly why 
you think that this is an indicator plant.
> If you have personal 
observation as the reference--great, at least we know
>it isn't the 
fantasy of some writer you happened to read.  There is way too
>much 
of that stuff in the indicator plant/companion plant 
literature
already.
> In case of personal observation, say exactly what 
you observed and why you
>then concluded that you were observing a case of 
an indicator plant--your
>reasoning behind your nomination.  If the 
plants talk to you that is great.
> After you verify that they aren't 
lying to you, by actual observations,
>we'll include what they have said 
in the list.  I do this to myself when I
>feel the plants have spoken 
to me--I'm not being snide, just realistic by
my
>limited 
sights.
>
>For Mother Earth, Dan Hemenway, Yankee Permaculture 
Publications (since
>1982), Elfin Permaculture workshops, lectures, 
Permaculture Design Courses,
>consulting and permaculture designs (since 
1981), and now correspondence
>courses via email.  One is now 
underway.  Next Live program:  Paraguay,
9/98.
>Internships 
available. Copyright, 1997, Dan & Cynthia Hemenway, P.O. 
Box
52,
>Sparr FL 32192 USA  YankeePerm@aol.com
>
>We don't 
have time to rush.
>
>