permaculture

[BK <lildragon@saber.net>]

Hi,
In reguards to black locusts, I'm not an avid silviculturalist, but I
believe they are one of the faster growing trees around. Had a small tree
(2" truck, 7 feet) about 2 years ago next to our house, it can now be seen
popping up above our roof. Also have tons of little seedlings popping up.
Its an n-fixer I believe. I've be playing with the idea of planting (on
barren land) a dense crop of them. Plan being: dense amount of small trees
to use as much sun as possible, thin about half of the trees out the next
year, use as forage. Thin them next year forage/stickwood. Such that you'd
continue to get a good amount out of the plot. Out course thats a bit of a
monocultural idea, so it'd be good to find understory crops for the more
mature system. Once they start flowering I bet you could get a good deal of
honey from the stand. I've set up a smal row of the little seedlings, I'm
hoping to try intertwining them as years progress to see how they'd work for
some form of biotecture.

Also, in reguards to industry and stacking, theres a term around called
"industrial ecologies". Setting up a group of industries where one
industries waste is anothers input.

Lastly, I'm not so sure I'd want to drink rainwater collected from rooves in
urban areas. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a bit of airborne
pollution around urban centers that would fall as rain?

Cheers,
BK