permaculture

["Darrell E. Frey" <defrey@bioshelter.com>]

create a niche and something will occupy it. 
any available food source will attract a consumer
response:

limit food supply and add predators, (cats and dogs, snakes and 
apparently you)

Darrell E. Frey
Three Sisters Farm
defrey@bioshelter.com
www.bioshelter.com

Author; Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm. New Society 
Publishing, 2011

On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 10:16:33 -0700, Alan Post 
<alanpost@sunflowerriver.org> wrote:
This year I've been dealing with rats in my barnyard.  I'm not
> looking for help dealing with that problem: I'm trying to articulate
> the pattern I'm seeing within the rubric of permaculture. 
>
> The specific scenario:
>
> I have a pest[1] (brown rats) that have taken up residence in my
> barn.  I have used traps as a control[2], and I've recently taken
> to hunting them too.  As I've hunted them, I noticed that they've
> used the barnyard environment in a way I hadn't considered/been
> aware of.  Building paths and finding routes.  Many of these paths
> emerged because of design decisions I'd made: they favor walls,
> narrow passages, and dark places. 
>
> I'm working to introduce more barriers[3] to prevent access to
> areas I'd rather they not be in.  But this feels underwhelming as
> a description of what is happening at the system-level. 
>
> In the permaculture rubric, what am I doing?  What pattern is this?
> What phrase describes this activity?  Again, not looking for advice
> on rats: I'm looking for hooks I can use to describe these
> interactions and help model the patterns. 
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Alan
>
> 1: http://sunflowerriver.org/wiki/Pest
> 2: http://sunflowerriver.org/wiki/Control
> 3: http://sunflowerriver.org/wiki/Barrier
> -- .i ma'a lo bradi cu penmi gi'e du
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