permaculture

["Pete Gasper, Gasper Family Farm" <farmer1@gasperfarm.com>]

What kind of soil is underneath those fields? Here in America we'd consider 
that too steep to plant or do much anything with besides maybe cattle or 
scrub timber. But then you can't run a combine with a 30' header across it 
and our soils of such geography tend to have stone a few inches down. But I 
wonder if human scale agriculture could radically expend food production 
here via methods like that.

Pete

On 01/06/2014 03:19 AM, Lawrence London wrote:
> Here's permaculture for you:
>
> A school near a terraced rice field in Vietnam [2000x1390] photo by sarawut
> Intarob (ppcdn.500px.org)
>
> http://ppcdn.500px.org/56447380/be22e6dc9524c2d254b5c124a78f01ed444ddf3c/2048.jpg
>
> When you see something like this, probably a thousand or more years old, it
> makes you wonder about those on the perpetual whine trip about what is or
> isn't
> PC because it isn't natural. Those terraces are certainly man made ecology
> enhancing, food producing, habitat sustainers. Sepp Holzer's work is of
> this quality.