permaculture

[rick valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>]

>Mesquite (Prosopis spp.) also
>creates a fairly light canopy as I remember. That is one of the reasons I
>thought it was interesting: it seemed possible to grow things under it. The
>pods are edible too.
The best ice cream I ever had was from goat milk from mesquite-pod-fed goats
in N. Peru; and they also make a wonderful syrup from the pods there.
And legume timber can be de la primera clase, too; Ironwood (Olneya) is
amazing stuff if you have a Sonoran climate...
And then there's shrubs and perennials like Astragalus- not just a locoweed,
there are herbal species too. "Legumes of World Importance"by Duke is a nice
start.
-Rick

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