permaculture

[j.cropper@trinidad.net (John Cropper)]

Marsha Hanzi

>This weekend 8-9 april I will be giving a course on  organic gardens, from
>the viewpoint of how each vegetable  fits into ecologic succession, where it
>comes from, its native habitat,etc.  I have  reasonable information, but
>would be most grateful if any of you know of a goldmine of this kind of
>information  ( where the plants come from, who domesticated them, etc.)

Purseglove's Tropical Crops 'Monocotyledons 1 & 2' and 'Dicotyledons 1 & 2'
published by Longmans Green i 1968 has some of this information

There's also some in 'Plants for People' by Anna Lewington, published by
Natural History Museum, London in 1990


>Ernst Gotsch has been working them into his agroforet succession, when he
>renews a field, with considerable success.  We are interested in creating
>permanent systems for vegetables which mock the natural agroforest
>succession...

I would be interested to hear more about this

John Cropper