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.

Another, in Yunnan province, China
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/permaculture/2010-March/036214.html
Really exquisite photography, and subject matter!

Hani Rice Terraces - Yunnan
Photo Gallery by Alister Benn & Juanli Sun at pbase.com
http://www.pbase.com/alibenn/hani_rice_terraces
Hani Rice Terraces - Yunnan
"In early January 2006 my wife and I spent a week in the small village
of Shengcun in the very south of Yunnan. The provincial town of Yuanyang
is the center of a fabulous area of rice terraces, built, no sculpted by
the local Hani people over many generations."
Sample:
http://www.pbase.com/alibenn/image/54915251
http://www.pbase.com/alibenn/image/54915252
http://www.pbase.com/alibenn/image/54915254
It is hard to even conceive of the scale of this farming system,
what an accomplishment!
http://www.pbase.com/alibenn/image/54915259

....:LL