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  • From: Neil Bertrando <neilbertrando@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Yeomans Plow and Keyline references wanted
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:38:38 -0800

Hi all,

I have a request for information, network connections, suggestions, and
reflections.

I'm based in Reno, Nevada, on the East slope of the Sierra Nevada mtns,
elevation ~4500 ft. lat. 39 degrees N. Winter Wet (Nov-May) precip ~5-10
inches/year, min temps ~ -10 F, max temps ~110 F.
I work with a environmental education, service, outreach, and education
non-profit organization, and we have recently started using a yeomans plow
and aerobic compost tea brewer as part of our tool kit for ecological
restoration projects.

Currently, we're working on designing a 'restoration' and invasive weed
management project with the Forest Service, and we are planning on starting
with soil renovation and improving hydrologic function as the foundation of
our design implementation. To do this, we are combining a few tool sets and
strategies including Permaculture, Keyline Design, and Soil Food Web. The
Forest Service has asked us for literature references specific to our
approaches. We have some but they are not comprehensive, and we are looking
in particular for any references that examine broad acre landscape
treatment, restoration to native grasslands or grass-shrub mosaic
communities, cold arid/brittle environments, and invasive weed management.
Also, anything specific to the short and long term results of Keyline
pattern cultivation treatments with a yeomans plow would be exceptional.

We're providing them with references to the PA Yeomans books, and the
Geographic Basis of Keyline. Anything beyond that is much appreciated.
This can include contact info for people with similar projects in process.

Thank you so much,
Towards an ecological society,
Neil




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