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[permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36
- From: BK <lildragon@saber.net>
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- Subject: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:05:38 -0800
Title: Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36 Heya folks,
Now that we seem to be on a role:
Penny Livingston (www.permacultureinstitute.com) has essentialy made large brush piles and then planted tubers in there such as potatoes and mashua. I was helping harvest the mashua that had grown in a few year old pile, and god, that soil was wonderful. Rich, black, easy to work, slow high carbon compost. This was in coastal California, so it wouldn't work in the dry regions. For those who are wondering, mashua is an Andean tuber, nastursium relative, with very peppery tubers, cool plant. I took a little of the harvest and am starting some here.
That request for class names lead me to something a bit different: Carbon coppicing (think carbon copying)-v-The process of repeatly harvesting growth from trees to be used as a carbon source.
And lastly a little question, I saw a company selling "Good King Henry" with a minimal description, is that the edible relative of plantain/White Man's Footsteps/snakeweed?
Cheers,
Bear K
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[permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36,
BK, 03/27/2003
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Re: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36,
Rick Valley, 03/27/2003
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Re: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36,
mIEKAL aND, 03/27/2003
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Re: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36,
Rick Valley, 03/27/2003
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RE: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36,
jamie, 03/27/2003
- Re: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36, Rick Valley, 03/27/2003
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RE: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36,
jamie, 03/27/2003
- [permaculture] Mashua, Rick Valley, 03/27/2003
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Re: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36,
Rick Valley, 03/27/2003
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Re: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36,
mIEKAL aND, 03/27/2003
- Re: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36, Keith Johnson, 03/27/2003
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Re: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36,
Rick Valley, 03/27/2003
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