permaculture

["Treesa Jane Rogerson" <treemail@cruzio.com>]

The article 1491 in the Atlantic Monthly, attached and about 20 pages, also
illustrates the 'tended garden' that was the Amazon Rain Forest, a human
artifact of a cultured ecosystem on top of sand.  If the garden is dug out,
the forest area now stands only as glass.

A reachingly poetic way to say you may really enjoy reading the article and
broadening perspectives on the earth in human history, and getting back to
our gardening roots.  Good news that by nature, perennially, we harvest and
sow.
(Keep good seeds.  Saviour seeds.)

Treesa Rogerson, M.A.

Lands Alive : Ecology By Design

treemail@yahoo.com






----- Original Message -----
From: "keller" <ak.and.ak@on-line.de>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Indigenous land use (was: imitating fire)


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Toby Hemenway <hemenway@jeffnet.org>
> To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:07 PM
> Subject: [permaculture] Indigenous land use (was: imitating fire)
> > I'll move closer to my home. The evidence is overwhelming that virtually
> the
> > entire continental United States was not the wilderness that my enviro
> > friends want to "restore," but a highly managed garden tended by about
> 18-25
> > million people (4), plenty enough to change the face of a continent.
> Here's
> > a survey:
> >
> I remember reading an article some time ago (in Scientific American?)
> showing that in some US forrests the proportion of oak trees with edible
> accorns is much higher among the older trees (from pre-european times)
than
> it is among the younger ones. Obviously, what looks like natural forests
> where actually orchards.
>
> I guess that these oak species with well tasting accorns are actually
> domesticated species. I also have a hunch that the mapple trees of canada
> are a domesticated species and that the high sugar content of its sap is a
> result of selection by humans.
>
> Andreas
>
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