permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Amazing pic of rice farming on many long terraces
Rice.jpg photo - Lien Vu photos at pbase.com
<http://www.pbase.com/vulien/image/49246303>


Does anyone here experiment with terraced gardens on slopes.
Sounds to me like it would be a standard permaculture method
to maximize plant growth using maximum rainfall and conserve maximum 
water-borne nutrients.


I have some long curving, high raised beds side by side (about 12 long beds) 
following the contour along a slope.
Recent 5" rain stayed in the ditches between the beds; some overflow occured 
between a few of them. Nutrient-rich
was conserved in ditches to be absorbed gradually by the beds. Some of the gardens looked almost like chinampas for a 
few days. These techniques ought to be SOP in permaculture design.

LL