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totally agreed, permacultures can be more or less self-sufficient in resources and energy. In contrast the widespread monocultures are hyper expensive in resour

totally agreed, permacultures can be more or less self-sufficient in resources and energy. In contrast the widespread monocultures are hyper expensive in resources, and making the soil extremely poor and erosive. Even things like tobacco monocultures, they have a big environmental cost, not even talking about the health cost of smoking. Let's also not forget intensive animal farms use even more resource by surface. We really need to reshape the global landscape, I'm so happy when I can find a fig tree along my ride, figs have actually been 90% of my diet since 2 months, free and deliciously nutritive fruits

foxhop 5y ago
Yes, I think animals play a vital role in ecosystems and the way we are treating them (both in nature and in our factory farms) is abhorent. That said, a Food Forest could feed many humans and just as many hogs, sheep, goats, and chickens and the closed loop nature of their manure cycles helps the plants regenerate and thrive. Keeping the animals separate from their inputs in absurd once you get to know animals. They don't want to be treated that way. As for figs, YES. I eat a lot of processed figs via "Cereal Bars" but I'm slowly growing my army of Hardy Chicago Figs, I have 10 or so 1 foot tall clones in their own pots, and a single treeform with two tiny figs on it. I'm looking forward to trying a fresh one but apparently collecting fig varieties is a sport for more well established growers. Worth learning how to grow a fig for anyone who isn't at their "forever" home, figs are fine to grow in pots! They are one of the few trees you can do that with because they tolerate swings of drought between watering and thrive in well draining soils having most of their roots very shallow and close to the surface. Have a great day: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1L3BxBiUQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1L3BxBiUQg | Pot up a rooted fig tree cutting into a bigger pot - my best cloning method
- N1H1L 5y ago
  Along with animals we also forget about fungi and insects. Trees communicate between themselves through forest wide fungal networks. And that's the biggest problem of pesticide driven monoculture farming - you destroy all of that complexity.

foxhop 5y ago

Yes, I think animals play a vital role in ecosystems and the way we are treating them (both in nature and in our factory farms) is abhorent. That said, a Food Forest could feed many humans and just as many hogs, sheep, goats, and chickens and the closed loop nature of their manure cycles helps the plants regenerate and thrive. Keeping the animals separate from their inputs in absurd once you get to know animals. They don't want to be treated that way. As for figs, YES. I eat a lot of processed figs via "Cereal Bars" but I'm slowly growing my army of Hardy Chicago Figs, I have 10 or so 1 foot tall clones in their own pots, and a single treeform with two tiny figs on it. I'm looking forward to trying a fresh one but apparently collecting fig varieties is a sport for more well established growers. Worth learning how to grow a fig for anyone who isn't at their "forever" home, figs are fine to grow in pots! They are one of the few trees you can do that with because they tolerate swings of drought between watering and thrive in well draining soils having most of their roots very shallow and close to the surface. Have a great day: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1L3BxBiUQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1L3BxBiUQg | Pot up a rooted fig tree cutting into a bigger pot - my best cloning method

N1H1L 5y ago
Along with animals we also forget about fungi and insects. Trees communicate between themselves through forest wide fungal networks. And that's the biggest problem of pesticide driven monoculture farming - you destroy all of that complexity.