Permaculture needs to be open and honest about its successes and failures
if it's going to be taken seriously and have a sustainable future.
Robyn
The hardest part of PC to swallow for me is this notion of designs one just
walks away from that are supposed to continue developing into some kind of
paradise. Given invasive species (exotic and native), wandering wild
critters, diseases etc. etc. this seems a little far fetched in most
situations. Further it really limits what one may choose to place in a
design. Black Locust, for example, makes a nice addition to a grazing farm
to provide the finest fence posts available, but would over run the place
if one walked away. I have seen far too much good farm land overrun with
brush and garbage trees in the name of "preservation" to believe we just
get to step back at some point. Even the first people around here set the
place on fire pretty regularly. We are part of the package, like it or not.
Mark
Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM