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[Rain Tenaqiya <raincascadia@yahoo.com>]

Again, Dieter, thanks for that great email.  I am doing most of the things 
you mention for fire prevention.  I'm also fantasizing about being able to 
have a few overhead sprinklers for zone 1, someday.  The danger of fire in 
your area seems unsustainable.  How did people thrive in the Mediterranean 
for so long with this kind of potential for fire?
 
Similarly, how did people populate the Mediterranean basin so densely with 
such limited water sources?  I would like to know more about traditional 
farming culture.  I also wonder if the fertility of the lowlands was 
maintained at the expense of the highlands, as in East Asia.  In Farmers for 
Forty Centuries, you can read about how the hills were basically sacrificed 
to maintain the rice paddies and orchards.  In the Mediterranean, goats, 
sheep, and cows, coupled with tree cutting, turned the hills into barren 
rocks, with all the topsoil feeding the lowlands or the Sea.  Are there 
examples of sustainable farming/gardening from traditional Mediterranean 
culture?
 
Rain



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Laurence, in our conversation, I failed to emphasize that the allopathic
effects of  grass was greatest at germination and first emergence. I
usually scuffle off the grass at an inch or two height taking care not
to expose  weed seeds lying a deeper depths. So I set the tool to
undercut the grass roots, perhaps 1 inch deep.

Thanks for the good conversation.

Marshall