Permaculture implications of traditional Central American farming
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Farmers: Traditional Agricultural Resource Management in Mexico and
Central America by Gene C. Wilken explores the methods Central
American farmers have used for centuries to maintain the health of
their farms without fossil-fuel-driven machinery or chemical
fertilizers. Farms were small, and the materials used came from
the farm itself or from nearby.
Although farmers in Central America are now giving in to modern farming
techniques, those of us intrigued by the permaculture concept of
creating a healthy food web within our garden have a lot to learn from
traditional American farmers. I'm going to skip over the
traditional techniques everyone's heard of --- like interplanting
legumes with hungrier crops to keep the soil rich in nitrogen or
applying manure to the soil. Instead, this week's lunchtime
series explores four intriguing management techniques we are
considering working into our own farm ecosystem.
| This post is part of our Central American Permaculture lunchtime
series.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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