permaculture

[Bob Ewing & Jocelyn Paquette <sixdegrees@baynet.net>]

Greetings, i just posted my question about Jean pain and thi came in. It fits
with what i've read. I'd liek to find a copy of his book. there is a web site
but my French is too weak to understand it.  
http://www.jean-pain.com/index1.htm

Bob

Harold Waldock wrote:

> The only successful project involving "simple tech" methane on the
> "temperate" home farm is rumoured to be in Jean Pain's book about forestry.
> He operated in high country in the south of France. The vague memory is that
> he developed a (patented)woodchipper that encouraged composting of the
> chips.  He ran pipes through the huge piles of chips and heated his
> greenhouse and his home and the methane producing tanks. He got all his
> woodchips from the forest fire control cuts which he was doing.