permaculture

[Scott Vlaun <scott@moosepondarts.com>]

Nick,

I suspect that the two might not really want to get married, although 
there's no reason why the two concepts can't live in peaceful 
co-existence. I've studied and photographed many of Mushroom's Kinship 
layouts as well as Gabriel Howearth's massive kinship garden in Baja 
(for an as yet unrealized book). I've learned a great deal from them on 
a very intuitive level in terms of how plants evolve, how they are 
related and the amazing breadth of diversity that exists.  The Kinship 
gardens are amazing tools for education and genetic preservation, but 
they're not the kind of perennial polycultures that are called for in a 
permaculture paradigm. It seems to me that one calls for bringing 
disparate species together in symbiotic relationships to increase 
productivity, while the other places closely related species together 
for the sake of taxonomic comparison, preservation and wonder. Kinship 
Gardening is definitely not companion planting.

Personally, I'd like to have a kinship layout of all the plants that 
will thrive in my bioregion alongside my highly productive guilded food 
forest.  Right now I need to get all my tomatoes and peppers started.

Scott


On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 01:28  PM, Nick Routledge wrote:

>  how I might
> marry kinship gardening to the harmonic chaostrophy of a guilded food
> forest. I suspect it's an initiation-by-doing thang and I ain't there 
> yet.
> In the meantime, I'd _love_ to see more about the topic on the web.
>
> n.
>
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