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After organics the idea of permaculture came about, and from that fusion has slowly come forward agriculture as a mimic of nature; or agriculture utalising the ethnobotanicals of a region. |
| Instead of recreating the landscape for agriculture, looking at the landscape and saying that this micro-site of the bioregion could have supported these economic plants. If I place them in this mix at this density I can obtain a viable crop that will support myself and the other animals of the local biosphere. |
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The beauty of this approach is that it can exist alongside conventional agriculture providing regeneration of riparian zones and shelter belts. I wild-craft from my eco-zones and am planting fruit, nut and timber trees as well as trees with oil-bearing leaves. My long term goal being self-sufficiency in my raw flavouring materials for my Liqueurs, wild dried herbs, essential oils and craft timber. |
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