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[Steve Hart <stevenlawrencehart@gmail.com>]

George...there is a young quite brilliant Permaculturist in Eastern France
just a little way SW of Lyon who we have visited on a number of occasions
he has 20 varieties of Chestnut and am sure a good resource for more
knowledge...I'll dig up his contact.

The French network may also have good contact....where are you located ?
Switzerland ?....Steve Hart


On 1 February 2014 16:06, georg parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at> wrote:

> 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,
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