permaculture

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

Sharon Gordon wrote:

> > Alley cropping with apples in China
> > http://www.pbase.com/sean5834/image/54557265
> >
> > Looks like they are encouraging a lot of diverse weeds to grow between the
>
> rows of apples;
>
> > or are these economic, food or cover crops?
>
>
> ***That's a soup or stirfry green.  Or you can cook them southern US style.
> You can find some similar ones here.
> http://www.kitazawaseed.com
> http://www.evergreenseeds.com

I was wondering if they were potherbs, the broadleaf ones.
Had some of my own tonight:

stir fried fresh-out-of-the-garden collard greens (20 degrees here tonight)
    collards shredded
    choppen red onion
    olive oil
    herb salt
    Chinese rice vinegar (Chinkiang Vinegar, especially good for stir frying 
tofu)
    miso tamari
California organic short grain rice (ripened on the stalk in the field)
    herb salt
    olive oil
    5-6 large cloves of garlic mashed and chopped
    food yeast
Mineral water

Quite a meal.

Watched finale of Jane Eyre on PBS tonight. Very nice.

> ***Thanks for pointing out the other pictures as well.  It's wonderful to
> see so many beautiful and food filled landscapes.

Glad you enjoyed them. I was going to post again about the countryside and 
farmland depicted in the photos
and ask if anyone else had the same question I did after looking at them, namely, why aren't we doing farming like that 
here in North American?

Those carefully tended terraced plantings and daylilly fields rolling over the mountains. You can tell, those folks 
really care about their countryside and their farming. They eat the daylillies, the unopened blooms or pods.

Is anyone else as amazed as I at Chinese traditional agriculture? Then 
there's TCM too.

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