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  • From: Mark Ludwig <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Agenda Shaping: The Society for EcologicalR
  • Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:20:01 -0500

At 11:36 AM 10/11/02 +0000, you wrote:
>The emphasis of this conference was feeding the soil food web and putting
>function before structure, e.g. restoring soil and water cycles before
>simply installing a plant community.

Am curious as to how can one restore soil and water cycles without
plants? Aren't plants an integral part of these processes? Maybe these
good folks don't understand the functional aspects of succession, a plant
community is something that needs to evolve rather than be 'installed' as
a final finished product. Where do the animals fit in to the picture?
Robyn

This could certainly include cover cropping, fertilizing and allowing chemical changes in soils, importing other additives like soils, sawdust etc. Many of these plants are expensive and some have fancy plans made by fussy or unrealistic planners, all leading to high dollar losses for failure,
Mark L




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