permaculture

[jamesdavid Sneed <harvestcircle@hotmail.com>]

Are you saying that taxes are necessary for permaculture?

> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 00:17:48 -0700
> From: diebrand@yahoo.com
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] How Much Land Does It Take To Become Food 
> Self-Reliant
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I haven’t followed this discussion, so I apologize if I repeat something 
> that has already been said.
> 
> >... no it doesn't take hundreds or acres or miles 
> > or whatever Toby said for wild harvests. 
> 
> In Japan, on highly fertile soil with more than enough rain, a quarter acre 
> of intensive farming is more than enough to grow most of your own food.  On 
> very poor soil in the arid climate of the South of Portugal, even 30 acres 
> are hardly enough to sustain a family.  And to live on the few berries or 
> mushrooms that will grow here in the wild, even 1,000 acres wouldn’t be 
> enough to feed a person.
> 
> Fukuoka floated this idea about a quarter acre for every family in the 
> early 90s.  At the same time he also advocated doing away with the liquor 
> tax.  As a farmer he was a genius, but as a social thinker he was a pure 
> catastrophe.
> 
> Dieter Brand
> Portugal
> 
> 
> 
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