permaculture

[Georg Parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at>]

>> There are also sections of the Congo Rain Forest that also have incredible
>> food forests created by the people indigenous to those forests.

Same goes for the forest in the interior of the Fiji ilands. When I went with 
indiginous parties on trips into the interior, eg for freshwater prawn 
fishing in the little rivulets, the old people gathered the mango pits after 
the lunch break, and went for a small 15 minute trip into the woods, planting 
those pits. And throughout the forest you find mangoes, bananas, plantain, 
lemons, grapefruit, polynesian chestnut, yams, taro, passionfruit, and on the 
dry side acres and acres of understory of pinapple (the small and intensively 
flavoured variety), sometimes so dense that you can harldy walk it without 
getting scratched and cut. Little of it is ever harvested.

Georg