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=== Forest Gardening === | === Forest Gardening === | ||
- | ====== Intro ====== | + | === Intro === |
Forest gardens represent a farming technique radically different from Western (mono-)agricultural models and concepts. For many primary people around the world the cultivation and redesigning of patches of forest to create a reliable source of foodstuffs is elemental to their survival. For some Amazonian people (supposed hunter/ | Forest gardens represent a farming technique radically different from Western (mono-)agricultural models and concepts. For many primary people around the world the cultivation and redesigning of patches of forest to create a reliable source of foodstuffs is elemental to their survival. For some Amazonian people (supposed hunter/ | ||
- | ====== A Counter Example from the Amazon | + | === A Counter Example from the Amazon === |
Mark Plotkin in Tales of a Shaman' | Mark Plotkin in Tales of a Shaman' | ||
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“And another thing,” said Kamainja. “You look at the plantation and you know the man doesn' | “And another thing,” said Kamainja. “You look at the plantation and you know the man doesn' | ||
- | ====== Origin of Forest Gardens | + | === Origin of Forest Gardens === |
From 'The forest-garden farms of Kandy, Sri Lanka' ([[http:// | From 'The forest-garden farms of Kandy, Sri Lanka' ([[http:// | ||
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A garden is never fully abandoned, after three years a garden may be completely overgrown with weeds and thorny bushes, and the people using it may migrate, they will come back often to harvest it. see [[Ecosystem_gardening]] | A garden is never fully abandoned, after three years a garden may be completely overgrown with weeds and thorny bushes, and the people using it may migrate, they will come back often to harvest it. see [[Ecosystem_gardening]] | ||
- | For forest people, gardening is a state of mind, a mode they are never out of. The entire Amazon is now believed to one huge man-made landscape kept intact by contant pruning and weeding as humans move through it. | + | For forest people, gardening is a state of mind, a mode they are never out of. The entire Amazon is now believed to one huge man-made landscape kept intact by contant pruning and weeding as humans move through it, a practise partially covered by [[nomadic agriculture]]. |
- | (Theun: I disagree with much of this; in my opinion | + | [[Further Local Discussion |
====== Gary Snyder and the Artistic Imperative | ====== Gary Snyder and the Artistic Imperative |