permaculture

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

lbsaltzman@aol.com wrote:

> In Santa Barbara California. A local Landscape Architect and Permaculture 
> design course graduate?named Owen Dell,
 has taken the concept of Foodshed down to the neighborhood. Several 
neighborhood foodsheds have been setup up where
people bring their homegrown fruit, vegetables, and nuts to trade with other 
members of the neighborhood.?
> We are also trading plants and seeds at these neighborhood foodsheds.

What a beginning! Next step would be to, of course use the Internet, 
establish overlapping regional product and services
marketing and distribution networks comprised of local networks or *.sheds (<fill-in-the-blank>sheds). Take what you are 
now doing that works and use that to construct a working protype that can be refined and streamlined, put on the web and 
replicated to expand your network. What better way to bring in new groups in other areas than to offer them a turnkey 
plan described on a website.

I am in the process of having installed an interactive integrated online 
information and networking system
using a wiki, a blog and forums. You are welcome to use this resource if you 
might find it useful.
I am open to adding extra sysops (admins) to manage their own areas of interest. Name is PermacultureWiki & it uses 
MediaWiki, Wordpress blog and BBPress forums. Very robust, simple and relable platforms.