You are starting from a false premise. The reason the non-natives are doing so well is Round-Up, Oust, soil disruption, fertilizers, pesticides and so forth and so on.I'm really not following why chemicals should affect plants from another region more so than "natives". No one really cares that much exactly which pretty little flowers grow in the ditch, as long as some plant is there to prevent erosion and produce our oxygen. Your attachment to them is purely emotional.
People go in and plow under the natives because they brought with them the plants they were familiar with. With all that man made help they did well to the detriment of the natives.
AND, not planting natives just because you are peeved at what you call enviro-whatsits is just plain silly.Many "natives" are useful to us as well. This is a false conclusion.
Your seed mixes are there because someone is making M-O-N-E-Y. Not because they will do best but because some seed company could make $$.If you try to buy these "native" seeds, you'll pay a whole lot more. BTW, T. macrocephalum is an annual, of no use to me. I need forages that are instantly available the moment the rains begin, not six months later.
You want legumes, there are lots of natives, Trifolium macrocephalum, T. wormskioldii, and Vicia americana, just to name a couple or three.
As to permaculture, that would be defined as "an ethic of caring for the earth and interacting with the environment in mutually beneficial ways" and how is that going to end simply because folks learn to use natives and collect their own seeds?The burden of proof is upon you to show that planting non-natives cannot also fit in with this notion.
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