permaculture

[SArjuna@aol.com]

    I've been reading Jacke's Edible Forest Gardens.   The copying of the way 
Nature does things by mingling many different trees, shrubs,perennials and 
groundcovers seems a wise way to go.
    However, I see that many people who call themselves and their projects 
permaculture are still doing monoculture.   For instance, the other day I 
came 
across the URL for a what was described as a model permaculture farm and 
teaching center in Australia, to find when I looked at the arial map on their 
website that they have big blocks of trees in rows, each block of a different 
species. 
    What's up?   Are there folks who think that as long as you're not tilling 
that's permaculture, even if you have monoculture, and then others who think 
that monoculture is not permaculture?
     We are creating a permaculture farm community, and want to get advice 
from a permaculture expert.   But it seems that we'll have to find out which 
subschool each expert follows.   Is this how it is?
     Shivani in WI


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