permaculture

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On 11/28/2012 10:28 PM, Rob Crook wrote:
> Lawrence,
>
> We could do the same thing with our floating islands in Lake Jordan and Falls 
> Lake.

Lake Jordan would be an ideal location for an experiment in floating 
gardens. It is slightly warmer there than where I live and Chapel Hill 
too. It is at the beginning of the Coastal Plain in the lowland plain 
below the old Uwharrie mountain range along Farrington Rd. to the west 
running parallel to the road running north south. This whole area has a 
distinctly different ecology than west of there. I lived near there for 
a year in the 70's and previously in the sixties.

Are you talking synthetic mats or natural? Would reed or bamboo work, 
interlaced with other fibrous perennials?

In Peru they use reeds of some sort to weave mats that become part of a 
huge floating island where they garden, build their homes and live.

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