permaculture

[venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

On 11/28/2012 9:12 PM, venaurafarm wrote:

> People have relied on low tech (high tech when you consider the scale of
> their endeavors, like the rice terraces) methods of producing food,
> forage and fiber for thousands of years. Farmers growing rice in
> mountainside terraces in the Phillipines use the off-season or fallow
> time to grow fish in the flooded terraces. They leave tied up bundles of
> rice straw in the ponds for fertilizer and marine organism breeding
> ground. They harvest fish and gain soil fertility in the terraces.
> I downloaded a huge collection of files and images on this remarkable
> site. If I can find them I will post links to the original. All this is
> on PBase somewhere. Some of the best collections of images and writing
> on rural cultures of the world exist at this remarkable site.

This is one of them but not the one I am looking for which is a 
collection of institutional papers analyzing and documenting rice 
terrace agriculture (or terraquaculture - terraquaponics?) in the 
Phillipines,

An Ifugao Adventure
http://www.pbase.com/bobbyw/ifugao2
The Incredible Ifugao Rice Terraces, the 8th wonder of the world...
The Story of Upland Rice
The Story of Upland Rice        
The Banaue Rice Terraces        
I g o r o t s   
The Children of Ifugao
Wildflowers of Batad    
The Batad Amphitheater
Hapao Rice Terraces

There are thousands of beautiful photographs in this amazing collection, 
a true magnum opus.

LL