permaculture

[Claude Genest <genest@together.net>]

Good work Charlie !


On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 11:40 PM, Charles Knoles wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>  We have planted the beginnings of a forest garden here in Fairfield 
> Iowa.
>  We got about 90 fruit/nut plants in the ground the campus of Maharishi
> University of Management.  We had labour force of about 45 eighth 
> graders
> from Maharishi School, to whom I had been teaching permaculture design 
> for
> the previous week.
>
>     The plants we used include: Hardy Kiwis, Apples, Pears, Quinces, 
> Aronia,
> Akebia, Pecans, Serviceberry, Elderberry and Gooseberry.  This
> added to a previously established stand of Nanking Cherries, Chestnuts,
> Hazelnuts and strawberries that we planted last year.
>
>   The Fairfield Ledger gave us their front cover and a photo.  The 
> shorter
> online version is at: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1139
>
>    We have another 100 or so fruit trees to plant and I'm planning on
> organising a planting party with the college students next weekend.  If
> anyone happens to be in Iowa, send me an email and come join the fun!
>
>   Much Love to All
>
>  Charlie Knoles
>
> P.S I have some Powerpoint Presentations on Guilds and Patterning that 
> I
> used for the classes I taught and I'd be happy to share them if 
> there's some
> place to upload them (how do I do this??). They look quite nice but 
> bear in
> mind that they were targetted to an eighth grade audience.
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