Wu-wei agriculture

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My to-read list now contains One Straw Revolution, courtesy of my Global Change professor. It turns out that he used to have a job teaching permaculture farming in Nepal (his home country).

Also, agaperos77: I sent the professor the desert permaculture video that you posted a while ago. He says he might use it in future classes

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[agaperos77]

Cool.

[copperwolf]

What is permaculture? Do you have a handy webpage to link to, or shall I Google it? :)

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It's designing agricultural systems in a way that mimics natural ecosystems. Cuts the necessary labor input drastically. (Ex: Instead of spraying fertilizer and pesticides, uproot and compost anything you don't want, and plant something else that will take up the weeds' ecological niche.) After the first few years, a plot of permaculture land will mostly maintain itself, and have a far greater variety of useful plants than a conventionally farmed plot.