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Re: keyhole beds?
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: keyhole beds?
- From: Judith Hanna <jehanna@gn.apc.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:28:17 +0100
- In-reply-to: <LYR103567-62235-2000.06.19-12.17.13--jehanna#gn.apc.org@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- References: <LYR101940-62016-2000.06.17-14.11.54--pci#permaculture-inst .org@franklin.oit.unc.edu><LYR86724-62000-2000.06.17-11.02.55--hemenway#jeffnet.org@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Arina Pittman wrote:
>>I think the problem is that we take some things as directions and the only
solutions, when they are only examples. I feel less and less comfortable
to give our students any plant lists, or examples of lay out of forest
gardens, or gardens, as I see how some people tend to receive it as the
prescribed way of doing it, rather then "a possible way".<<
Hear hear -- the value of permaculture is design principles for reaching a
sustainable solution for a unique mix of local conditions. Techniques that
work for one context -- physical or human -- won't necessarily transfew to
another...
Judith Hanna
jehanna@gn.apc.org
15 Jansons Rd, Tottenham, London N15 4JU