permaculture

[Rain Tenaqiya <raincascadia@yahoo.com>]

I just finished Tending the Wild, by Kat Anderson, and feel it is an 
essential text for permaculturists around the world, not just in California.  
The idea that you can creat a garden of Eden and then just wack and few 
plants here and there while harvesting food ignores the dynamic and nonlinear 
nature of Nature.  Many plants respond to pruning and burning by increasing 
their output, while many require it to stay free of pests and diseases.  I'm 
having to admit that many of the "rape and scrape" practices of conventional 
farming have good justifications, though I still believe we can find more 
sustainable and integrated ways of achieving the same goals.
 
As for Douglas-fir, was it in Cascadia after the ice age before the last ice 
age?  It's probably been coming and going for hundreds of thousands of years, 
no?
 
Rain



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