Permaculture Landscape design

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Dear Matajis and Prabhus

please accept my humble obeisances,

all glories to Srila Prapnhupada.

 

Thanks, I received some positiv reply about permaculture. Here are some more

informations:

 

With permaculture sustainable landscapes can be designed. One tool that is

used are the zones. The garden, the farm, the project is divided into

different zones.

 

Zone Function

 

00 Self

0 House,

1 Area around the house, vegetables, spices, herbs

2 Eatable landscape, fruittrees, plants that live several years

and produce nice fruits

3 smaller animals, trees

4 place for bigger animals, wood

5 wild nature, wood for heating and furniture

 

 

Another concept are the horizons. Normal industrial agriculture grows only

in one horizont, whereas Mother Nature grows in several horizons like in the

rainforest. You have roots and plants in in the earth, then herbs, then

bushes, than small trees, middle trees, huge trees and plants that are

growing vertically up the trees. So we can grow in seven horizons and thus

using our space as best as we can. This way of growing does not impede the

developpment of different planst but actually creates a good atmosphere for

many plants to grow and animals to develop. Different plants create good

chemical combination in the earth.

 

Alltogether we have to run away from monoculture agriculture that only

developped out of one reason: machines. And all the effects of this

monoculture are really bad to the land. It is artificial. Most of our earth

is finished after forty years of industrial agriculture.

 

One important thing are the circles. Watercircle, nutrition cicle. We can

not afford to send the water away with a canal. We should keep it on the

land, clean it with a sewage plant based on roots, and use it again. Also

the human excrements should be composted and used a fertilizers and not be

flushed down the toilet with valuable drinking water.

 

We can easily create eatable landscapes around our projects and going a huge

step into the self sufficient way of life.

 

Thanks.

I can give you more information if you like.

 

your servant

Navanitacora das