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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Growing Along Highway Margins
  • Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:52:10 -0400

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




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