Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fwd: [New post] Maintaining the garden
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 15:45:10 -0500
Hi All,
> So am I, and I market garden for part of my living.
>>
> But if instead you had 500 hectares to manage, what sort of approach
> would you take?
>
> Would you set up a small village of 200 people to help you work this land?
>
I would, yes, you bet! Maybe even 500 people. I believe that the whole
phenomenon of there being just one person (or even one household) with 500
hectares to work, is a sort of artifact or anomaly of the modern industrial
age. A rather pathological one, in my opinion.
As I see it, we need to repopulate large swathes of land with the human labor
(and companionship) that it -- and WE -- have been missing sorely.