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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] [Fwd: Simon Henderson update]
  • Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:29:25 -0500

Simon Henderson has more than twenty years of experience in documenting traditional agriculture systems throughout the world. He traveled fairly extensively in tropical regions studying bamboo'ss botanical characteristics and uses by many cultures. In 1995 he established a bamboo agroforestry research farm where his friends continue to conduct varietal trials on more than 30 species of bamboo. Simon has consulted for bamboo projects throughout Asia, Central America and the US. He carries, with his fellows of Bamboo Nation and Bamboo People, Daphne Lewis and Stuart Brune (Bamboo Research Station at Coyote Ranch near Stanwood, WA, USA), a vision of bamboo as an element woven into Permaculture agroforestry and human cultural life. Simon will be remembered as an inspired Permaculture designer/educator and for his extensive writing on bamboo in the agricultural landscape.Read his Raising the Dragon: Bamboo Agroforestry in Southeast Asia or an article by him at http://www.permaearth.org/bamboo.html

Simon, his colleagues, and fellow bambuseros have focused on urban gardening with bamboo introducing bamboo as a plant of world significance. They maintain nurseries and offer instruction in installation, maintenance and harvesting of shoots and poles.

Rick Valley and the gang in the NW USA knew him far better than I, though I would have enjoyed spending more time with him and on his projects. He's worked with Toby Hemenway, Michael Pilarski, the Bullocks, Larry Santoyo, Jude Hobbs, John Schinnerer, Doug Abberly, the folks at Lost Valley, Jonathan Scherch, and many others. He helped awaken a lot of people to wonderful plants and to Permaculture. He also appears briefly in the Global Gardener video delivering strawberries to Cascadian Farms. May we all join him, his students and friends in keeping all his good works alive and thriving.

You can see a picture of Simon at http://fertileground.org/community/bamboo/
More at : http://www.wildthymefarm.com/agrobamboo.html


Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:

Keith Johnson wrote:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Simon update
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:44:14 -0500
From: gail sullivan <gail@fertileground.org>


Keith:

Could you tell us a little about Simon, who he is and what he has done
in the world of plants, permaculture and eco ag?

Thanks,

LL


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Culture's Edge at Earthaven Ecovillage
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