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  • From: Ben Martin Horst <ben.martinhorst@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Living bridges
  • Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:19:03 -0800

Here's a super cool addition to the conversation about growing buildings and
other structures:

http://theoriens.com/living-root-bridges-in-india/

It makes good sense that they'd use a ficus ... I've thought for a while
that banyans have significant potential as living buildings in the tropics.
Anyone have temperate species suggestions for similar applications?

-Ben



  • [permaculture] Living bridges, Ben Martin Horst, 12/21/2009

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