To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Veggies in natural succession- info?
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:02:09 -0500
Marsha Hanzi
>This weekend 8-9 april I will be giving a course on organic gardens, from
>the viewpoint of how each vegetable fits into ecologic succession, where it
>comes from, its native habitat,etc. I have reasonable information, but
>would be most grateful if any of you know of a goldmine of this kind of
>information ( where the plants come from, who domesticated them, etc.)
Purseglove's Tropical Crops 'Monocotyledons 1 & 2' and 'Dicotyledons 1 & 2'
published by Longmans Green i 1968 has some of this information
There's also some in 'Plants for People' by Anna Lewington, published by
Natural History Museum, London in 1990
>Ernst Gotsch has been working them into his agroforet succession, when he
>renews a field, with considerable success. We are interested in creating
>permanent systems for vegetables which mock the natural agroforest
>succession...