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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Integrated sustainable rural homesteading
  • Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:40:56 -0400

Forest Garden wrote:

Those photos were amzing. How many generations did it take for them to do
all that terracing?

I don't really know but considering the acreage (many mountainsides) and
steep terrain
it could have taken hundreds of years. I do not know the ethnicity of the happy people in those pix nor their history in that particular region but you might assume that they are not nomadic and may represent dozens of generations of their families who have lived in that general region or locale. If ancient people lived there then the project could have started a thousand or more years ago. A good anthropology text would shed some light on this.

Noctaire wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the terracing is for growing rice -- correct?

It is. Rain collects on the terraces which are dammed up at rice planting time to thwart weed growth, then drained as the rice could drown also if left submerged for too long.

Notice the small homestead on one of the steep slopes. They have an extensive grape arbor (I assume it is grapes or some semi-tropical fruit), outhouse, clothes line and some yard. Just like home.






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