permaculture

[Steve Diver <steved@ncat.org>]

Hello Kathy -

Please see the article below by Peter Bane.

It includes an explanation and photos of brushwood
stacking, a method that Jean Pain promoted.

Another Kind of Energy
by Peter Bane
The Permaculture Activist
http://www.permacultureactivist.net/PeterBane/Jean_Pain.html

Also see the articles on Ramial wood chipping at Laval
University.

Groupe de Coordination sur les bois raméaux
http://www.sbf.ulaval.ca/brf/default.htm

These two sites promote chipping of brushwood
to make large compost piles that generate biothermic
heat as well as a humusy compost after many months
of biological degradation and humification.

Best regards,

Steve Diver