permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>]

On 2/15/2013 10:04 AM, Jude Hobbs wrote:

>  I'm working with farmers who grow hops, wine grapes, blueberries,
> nut trees and/or grains.  Many of these sites (between 100-500 acres)
> are mono-cropped or have minimal biodiversity. For farmers' ease of
> use, I'm creating templates introducing islands of diverse species,
> or beneficial insect attracting plant oasis's, for temperate and arid
> environments. The templates can be for a multitude of crop types.
>
> If anyone on this list works within these or similar parameters, I'd
> appreciate hearing from you.

That would be fascinating work.

Regarding "beneficial insect attracting plant oases", I once posted to 
the sanet-mg list that it should be possible to render vast acreage on a 
large working farm insect pest free or nearly so by integrating within 
all cropping area wild "islands" (oases) populated with beneficial 
insects and other organisms, including innoculation of soil with 
beneficial microorganisms (a regular renewal or replenishment program of 
maintenance, same with he other organisms), though proper habitat 
created for them there to also include edge zones, water features: 
berms, swales, dams, ponds, lakes, wet weather streams or drainage conduits.

LL