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Permaculture is going to become a very important subject for study. I have recently gotten interested in the subject and the results have been amazing even in v

• zeristor 8y ago
  Greening the desert, I've been following that for months, after watching the Oregon YouTube channel on permaculture. I've just spent an hour following up on Managed Aquifer Recharge, albeit not entirely relevant in my part of Europe. To bring it back to HN, I keep thinking there must be ways to model landscapes, and planting strategies to increase permaculture efficiency, although probably the antithesis of permaculture. The issue seems to be putting plants together so they can support each other in close quarters, sounds like an optimisation problem to me, I've called it augmented permaculture before.
  • ph0rque 8y ago
    Your description of an app for designing / modeling edible landscapes with permaculture principles in mind is exactly what I am working on: https://automicrofarm.com/app/ https://automicrofarm.com/app/ In fact, I thought about creating a "digital twin" for your edible landscape, and wrote about it here: https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2018/11/digital-twin.html https://automicrofarm.com/blog/2018/11/digital-twin.html