permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

hi everyone
	just got an email from a friend in a Permaculture Community in Mexico who 
is here in Santa Barbara and received an email from her community in 
Mexico. I was wondering what the collective wisdom is on Pesticides and 
there use in Permaculture
                wes
here is her email and

Hi, just writing to you cause I'm too lazy to do the
research, I guess, and thought that you might know
quicker where to find the official Permaculture stand
on if pesticides are ever used in this system.  More
than one of my neighbors in our "Permaculture"
community have been using pesticides, as documented by
the following email.  Comments?  Comments I can share
with the community? thanks for your help,
barbara

Dear Barbara:

I spoke Colin about pesticides, and it was true.

He said that according to permaculture principles, one
must try to use natural means, but
if one is  unsuccessful, one may use chemicals.  He
had those leaf cutter
ants, and  he said they destroyed 5 trees he hadplanted.  He said he
had no choice.

Basically,  we  have all been misled in different ways
when buying this land, and there is really  nothing we can do about it.
I don't see that Colin tried other methods before resorting to poisons.
 I thought we had to do everything organically on the land, but apparently
not everyone agrees.



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