permaculture

[Claude William Genest <genest@together.net>]

Love this idea Charles !!

Here's an initial two cents:

I was thinking that any typical hanging basket that grows spider plants
et.al could just as easily be growing greens.

Also, I understand that John Todd's living Machines will evolve down to "lap
top" size soon (?)

on 6/7/03 1:38 AM, Charles Knoles at charles@growfood.org wrote:

> Hey Y'all
> 
> Russ Grayson raised a question a while back about how to do permaculture in
> urban settings like apartments and such.  I thought it was an interesting
> design challenge but it got lost in the mix with the recent drama.  I've
> been thinking about it and I thought maybe we could all throw in our two
> cents worth about how it might be done.
> 
> There's at least two types of situations that we could think
> about.  Firstly an apartment that has already been built that an urban
> permy moves into. Therefore windows are not necessarily aligned to the sun,
> conventional trash disposal procedure, flush toilet etc.
> 
> The second situation is where an apartment is designed from scratch to
> be permacultural, sky's the limit, dream away! Let's assume though that
> there isn't any growing space around the base of the apartment building.
> 
> Russ said something like: "don't assume it's all about food".  Russ, can
> you expand on that so we know what other things you were referring to?
> 
> On the other hand if there are cool ways to make food in that
> circumstance, all the better. --> Raising guinea pigs for meat, fed on
> mushrooms perhaps????
> 
> Peace Out
> Charlie Knoles
> 
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