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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Dry farming [Fwd: [SANET-MG] soil's influence on transpiration]
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:44:04 -0500

Dieter Brand wrote:
Lawrence,
I'm not subscribed to SANET. Would you mind also forwarding the
replies Edna receives to her question, as this is of particular interest
to me. Thanks for the trouble.

I sure will, Dieter. I remember you are interested in dry land parmaculture.

Look into Vandanva Shiva's work and her promotion of the use of neem seed for
household and agricultural use.
She might have other information that applies to your situation.

Here's a book that might interest you written by Paolo Soleri's daughter:

"Food From Dryland Gardens. An ecological, nutritional and
social approach to small-scale household food production"
by David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri
Illustrated by Daniela Soleri
1991
Center For People Food and the Environmant
Tuscon, Arizona, USA, CFPE
With support from UNICEF

Available used from Amazon.com and probably Abebooks
and other used book sellers
You can buy the CD here:
http://echobooks.org/product_info.php?products_id=556
Food From Dryland Gardens CD-ROM [1197]
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 15 January, 2004.
price: $10.95


Reviews:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n73/ai_11733709

Food From Dryland Gardens. - book reviews
Whole Earth Review, Winter, 1991 by Peter Warshall

In the beginning, everyone wanted growth. Then they learned about cancer and Sprawlsville, USA. So foreign-assistance salesmen replaced growth" with the more contemporary term "development." But somehow development never seemed to help the people who were supposed to be developed." Then conservation came along, and consultants caught on that maybe what they were calling "development" was actually devastating the environment and sucking up the natural resources that supplied locals with a living.
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Now there is a struggle to combine conservation and development. People don't need to grow taller or fatter or reproduce ourselves like photocopiers; we need to develop a gender, more sustainable economy. David Cleveland and Daniela Soleri ore among the best of the nouveau eco-developers. Their book gives the Big Picture so that readers are always aware how small acts fit or don't fit into the larger picture. Their book is practical a breath of fresh earth compared to the jargon-filled tracts on how to be successful in the foreign-assistance profession. From vitamins to vegetative propagation, from marketing to salt bum, this is the first major book on dryland gardens. (To UNICEF's credit, it supported the production.) Food From Dryland Gardens sets the example for all people-focused garden and agroforestry books in the future.

Safe Homemade Pesticides

NEEM SEED EXTRACT Use: Spray to repel insects or slow their feeding; kills pests when they eat it. Recipe: Seeds of fruits fallen from the tree are cleaned, dried, and stored in a dry, ventilated place. When needed, seed hulls are removed, and seeds are finely ground and hung in a cloth sock in a container of water, using between 25-50 gm seed/liter of water (3-7 oz seed/gal of water). The ground seeds are soaked overnight in the water before using. This mixture should be made fresh for each use as it can lose its effectiveness over time and with exposure to sunlight. Reported to control: caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers, and other garden pests.

Food From Dryland Gardens David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri, 1991; 387 pp.

$25 ($27.50 postpaid) from Center for People, Food & Environment, 344 S. 3rd
Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701

COPYRIGHT 1991 Point Foundation
COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group

Bibliography from this book:

View more issues: Fall 1990, Spring 1991, Summer 1991
Bibliography for "Food From Dryland Gardens. - book reviews"
Peter Warshall "Food From Dryland Gardens. - book reviews". Whole Earth Review. Winter 1991. FindArticles.com. 13 Jan. 2008. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n73/ai_11733709
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