permaculture

["John Schinnerer" <johns@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

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From: <WSM311@aol.com>
> Then I want to take each thing....for example...a beech tree is
> windbreak, firewood, beech nuts, wildlife habitat, the leaves make good
> toilet paper, etc.... ;-) I want to come up with evey possible use of
> every plant and object, then discover ways to utilize them personally
and/or
> sell the raw materials or finished product from them.

Attend to the relations between these "things" you will be observing - they
are perhaps more important than the things themselves.  How do the beech
trees (and their nuts, and leaves - green or fallen, and so on) interact
with the wind, the wildlife, bushes, rain, snow, etc. etc., and vice versa?

Whereabouts in Vermont are you?  Anywhere near Putney?

John Schinnerer
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Human Habitat Design
Cultural & Ecological Designing
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