permaculture

[georg parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at>]

According to literature the main species for forest gardens that have  
supported whole villages for centuries -both in Sardinia and in  
Switzerland- is the chestnut. 7 trees support a family they said (or  
was it 7 trees per person? would have to read up on this old research  
paper...), having had different varieties for different puropses, some  
for fresh eating, some for storage in wet sand in the shade under a  
roof, some for drying (and grinding them later to cook a kind of  
porridge), some for sweet preserves, some to feed the goats with both  
leaves and fruit, and propably some for timber production (and fruits  
for goats and swine, I guess). I am afraid we have lost the varieties  
a while ago...


Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Georg Parlow
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