permaculture

["Robert Waldrop" <rmwj@soonernet.com>]

Two additions have been recently made to our Permaculture Wisdom
Epithets list.

"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space"

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks his own funeral,
dressed in a shroud,  and I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase
the pick of the earth.  Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'

In other news, I planted a polyculture (modelled after the discussed
of same in Toby Hemenway's Gaias Garden book) of 8 different kinds of
lettuce, plus radishes and some dill.

The permanent crops we added this year (boysenberry, dewberry,
elderberry, blackberry, camas lily, clove currant, apricot/peach/pecan
trees, concord and fredonia grape vines), have all done well except
for the camas lily and pecan tree.  I planted 8 camas lilies, half
survived, the pecan tree has not produced any buds or foliage yet, so
it may be a dud.  I also added a Cheroke rose given me by a Cherokee
friend from eastern Oklahoma, and another rose "erfult" rose bush.

All of the perennial herbs are now up and growing, except for the
rosemary which apparently did not survive our winter.

Robert Waldrop, http://www.bettertimesinfo.org
Oklahoma City

 >Water the seeds of joy first.
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>Food Not Lawns!
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>I'm a mulcher for permaculture
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>Don't be afraid to go out on a limb - that's where the fruit is
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>"The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due,
not
>a
>garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of
>others to command." J.R.R. Tolkien
>
>."The Greatest Fine Art of the future will be the making of a
>comfortable
>living from a small piece of land." - Abraham Lincoln
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>Grass fed is best.
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>I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to eat soybeans.
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>Eat Wheat Not Meat!
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>Eat Fukuoka/Bonfils system, No work grown wheat, not meat.
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>Make Compost, Not War!
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>Do I have a legume obsession or is it just have a nitrogen fixation?
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>Feed the wildlife.
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>Grow Soil.
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>Build soil.
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>Visualize Whirled Peas.
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>Give Peas a Chance.
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>Compost Happens.
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>Shift Happens.
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>Compost - Because a Rind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.
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>Invest in rootstock.
>
>
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