permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> Scott Pittman wrote:
> > How about chicken tractors? 
>
> Probably very management labor intensive.
>
> > Biofuels diminish the soil fertility as all
> > fertility is exported to make fuel, same with building materials.  At least
> > with chickens you leave behind the manure to help replenish what is lost
> > through grazing.  
>
> On-site Hugelkultur systems utilizing llandscape maintenance waste for 
> earthworm and compost production which could be recycled back into the 
> landscapes. Notice how many miles of flower beds (bulbs, perennials and 
> annuals and ground cover) you see along highways near gateways to urban 
> areas? These are high maintenance area which could be greatly improved 
> and stabilized with organic compost and earthworms. If you could 
> integrate chicken tractors and maybe even goats with this system, all 
> the better. Tether the goats to the chicken tractor. Pigs too?

And redesign the landscapes along the highways to include proper 
placement of water impoundments, swales, berms and fit the ornamental,
specimen, facer, hedging, windbreak, erosion control, perennial and 
flower plantings within such systems. This would constitute a move 
toward natural municipal landscaping from strictly architect-designed 
ornamental roadside plantings, usually on existing slopes and relatively 
unstructured flat areas.

....:LL