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["Frances and David" <fdnokes@hotmail.com>]

Interesting note about Peru...
Just realizing that there is a wonderful opening for pc documentarists, video 
and/or photographic...
a pc guide to the... Cuba, Phillipines, Peru, etc.
a series? *
Food forest adaptations of the world?
Tromping around the countryside finding out what there is to learn from 
everybody, a la Paul Wheaton.
Sounds like a neat occupation!
I used to work as a teacher-librarian, at the time of a revolution in non 
fiction books for children (and adults) with richly illustrated books a la 
Dorling Kindersley seizing the day and taking books to new heights of 
communication.  I guess that's where I am coming from here.
It's amazing what one can learn from an arm chair with the right combination 
of text and photographs.
These things can be introductory in nature... or, operate on a number of 
levels.  Strong, plentiful photographs keep the basic/beginner levels 
satisfied, and lead on to deeper study, while organizing thought.  So many 
wonderful books have been coming out in the permaculture, and I imagine many 
more are yet to come!
What about a series for children and/or young adults in permaculture? 

...and then there is the encyclopedic variety of publication!  I picked up 
Harvey Ussery's The Small-Scale Poultry Flock (with foreword by Joel Salatin) 
from the library today, and was blown away by the extensive nature of its 
offerings... and loved the title page quote:

... how we eat determines, 
to a considerable etent,
how the world is used.

Wendell Berry

Cheers,
Frances

*(at least, I would love to read about permaculture in such a fashion. Is 
there room for presenting information at a variety of levels? Allowing people 
to put their toe in the water first?  Sharing concepts, vocabulary with equal 
ratio of photographs... building up the imagination and visual vocabulary 
before going into depth... More pictures, and words used more as captions to 
pictures...)





-----Original Message----- 
From: venaurafarm 
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 8:19 PM 
To: permaculture 
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Floating garden in a lake in Borma; farmers 
picking tomatoes. Aquaponics at its best. 

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.

> Rob Crook
> Managing Partner Floating Island Southeast
> 300 Waterside DR
> Carrboro, NC 27510
>
> 919-918-7788 home/office
> 919-260-5082 mobile
>
> www.floatingislandse.com
> rcrook@floatingislandse.com
> facebook: Floating Island Southeast
> twitter: floatingisland2
> robocrook

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On 11/29/2012 12:35 AM, Steve Hart wrote:
> I'd like to move this debate into another plane in suggesting that of the
> potential 9 billion 8.8 billion don't deserve to exist on this planet. This
> mass have no concept of any argument that they being members of species man
> and their manner of living is perpetuating the deficant that will suffocate
> their very existence. This majority exists at every level of society.

I have already taken those issues into account, Steve. Not to worry,
just move on and stay on track .... those are not the droids you are
looking for anyway....

The offerings stand on their own merit, some use them, some don't but
all have to eat, futuristic tribal scenario, roving tribal hordes of
scavenging nomads, they all still have to eat and will come around
eventually. Global cooperation. Maybe a naive pipedream concept, maybe not.

Now, how did I get off on this tangent...ah yes, the global permaculture
conspiracy to take over the world. Nice idea.

More people need to become interested in the IPC's and for those unable
to travel and attend them, an online gathering alternative.