permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:43:56 GMT, in alt.permaculture
woodvine@netidea.com (Joel) wrote:

Hi

I live in a rural area, and have done so for over 25 years.  I'm a
gardener, fruit-tree grower, and sometimes a builder -- perpetually a
maintainer.

In the Permaculture "textbooks" (e.g., by Mollison) that I've seen,
many important matters of design are treated, such as water flows,
storage, etc, plant stacking, placement of plantings, multiple
functions (mimicing natural ecology), home and utility building
design, and so forth.  Great stuff.

The one element that I haven't run across is cost.  Granted that the
land owner will do much of the work her- himself, perhaps with the
help of friends and cohorts, there is still a need for cash
investment, obviously.  Clearly there is sometimes the need to hire
heavy equipment, in some strategies.

Has anyone brought these considerations (and thus their effect on the
phases of design actualization) into the dialogue, into the framework
of design?

I believe this is something that most conventional landscape
designers, architects, and urban planners would have to do.
Professional Permaculture designers must have had to come to grips
with this, no?

Thanks for your repsonses.

Joel Russ
Canada

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