permaculture

[Alan Post <alanpost@sunflowerriver.org>]

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you sir!

I didn't actually realize how in-demand rat carcases are, but I have
so far had no trouble finding consumers for this new food source,
heh.

-Alan

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 12:39:44PM -0500, Darrell E. Frey wrote:
> 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
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