Permaculture
Apr. 25th, 2007 06:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenYesterday I spent some time learning a little about permaculture. It's a complex topic, so I think I need to find a good book on it; perhaps one by Bill Mollison, but next time I have a chance to get to a book store, I plan on seeing what's readily available. There's a farm the next town over, Northampton, that has an organic CSA that's working on creating a permaculture garden. There's also a guy in our own town of Holyoke who's working on one apparently, but I haven't emailed him yet.
Permaculture has a lot of plants in it, not necessarily in neat rows, but rather put together in a way that the plants can support one another (companion planting, but much more than just that). A lot of the original work was done in warmer climes, but there has been work done in the temperate zone as well, both in the U.S. and the U.K. You're sort of trying to create a more natural place instead of the more commonly known traditional methods of agriculture, but filling it with edible things.
No tilling involved, which is cool, so I was slightly annoyed at all the work we've been doing, but we need to re-level the ground a little anyway, no matter what type of gardening we're doing.
Here's one site on it: Permaculture (you can do a search at their site for your state and they have some groups listed for your area)
Here's one with a list of demos/talks coming up: Edible Forest Gardens
Here's one for the Northeast: Northeast
There's lots more out there, of course, but I have to go to my PT appt. and stuff. Have a great day!
Permaculture has a lot of plants in it, not necessarily in neat rows, but rather put together in a way that the plants can support one another (companion planting, but much more than just that). A lot of the original work was done in warmer climes, but there has been work done in the temperate zone as well, both in the U.S. and the U.K. You're sort of trying to create a more natural place instead of the more commonly known traditional methods of agriculture, but filling it with edible things.
No tilling involved, which is cool, so I was slightly annoyed at all the work we've been doing, but we need to re-level the ground a little anyway, no matter what type of gardening we're doing.
Here's one site on it: Permaculture (you can do a search at their site for your state and they have some groups listed for your area)
Here's one with a list of demos/talks coming up: Edible Forest Gardens
Here's one for the Northeast: Northeast
There's lots more out there, of course, but I have to go to my PT appt. and stuff. Have a great day!
