[Terrapreta] Terrapreta Digest, Vol 5, Issue 17

[code suidae]

On 6/1/07, Rhisiart Gwilym <Rhisiart at ddraiggoch.org> wrote:
>
> Dave asks:
>
> "So, I wonder if someone could direct me to the newbie page that explains
> why
> the obvious things don't work and maybe some of the basic techniques?"
>
> Siwmae Dave,
>
> There's a very long, but just marvellously inspiring answer to this
> question -- 575 A4 pages, in fact. It's called 'Permaculture', by
> BIll Molllison; the copyright-1990 edition of his work. Bill has had
> soil under his fingernails all his long life. One of the basic tenets
> of his great, global vision is that you can make good soi, pretty
> quickly, out of any substrate, no matter how miserable to start with,
> so long as the ground isn't permafrost, or as dry as the Atacama.
> Anything between these extremes can be made to bloom -- copiously.
>

Thank you for this thoughtful post! I've heard about 'Permaculture' before,
but the descriptions I was given made it sound like some kind of new-age
mumbo-jumbo. Your inspiring description makes it sound much more engaging
and I shall endeavor to obtain a copy. The price is a bit staggering, but it
sounds worth the investment. Unfortunately neither the local library nor the
interlibrary loan system have copies.

Thanks again!
DOK
-- 
"Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know." - M. King
Hubbert
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