Hello, Happy Sunday! Hope you are keeping safe through these pandemic times. This is my first post here, requesting help with ideas and suggestions, I don’t know if I am posting it in the right topic section. we have a history of farming, traditionally paddy is grown. however want to experiment with permaculture kind of farming in a land of about 5000 sq ft to start with. The plots are separated by 30 ft road, a residential land in a village. Plan is to get returns all round the year, quarterly or twice a yr from interplantatation, and returns after 7-10 yrs for main plantation, to be noted, experimenting only. Please share your valuable suggestions.
Main factors-
- Water isn’t an issue, at any time of the year, hopefully we preserve it.
- We need low maintenance kind of ideas, since we are on and off the village and an extended family member of ours could keep a watch on it.
- Monkeys are frequent visitors
- Red to black soil
- finance isn’t a concern at all
Main plantation : melia Dubia or sandal wood or bamboo
inter plantation; lemon, sweet lime, oranges what else can we opt considering monkeys
third plantation ideas please?
i would be very grateful to hear out all suggestions to take this project forward.
Thank you ,
1970s by David Holmren and Bill Mollison, two Australians conceptualized to utilized a piece of land in a holistic manner, integrating every animal and plant living on it, and combining that with social structures designed to foster long-lasting agriculture as well.
A few principles of Permaculture as described by David Holmgren .
1.Observe and interact – by taking the time to engage with nature we can design solutions that suit our particular situation
2.Catch and store energy – by developing systems that collect resources when they are abundant, we can use them in times of need
3.Obtain a yield – ensure that you are getting truly useful rewards as part of the working you are doing
4.Apply self regulation and accept feedback – we need to discourage inappropriate activity to ensure that systems can continue to function well
5.Use and value renewable resources and services – make the best use of nature’s abundance to reduce our consumptive behavior and dependence on non-renewable resources
6.Produce no waste – by valuing and making use of all the resources that are available to us, nothing goes to waste
7.Integrate rather than segregate – by putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other
8.Use and value diversity – diversity reduces vulnerability to a variety of threats and takes advantage of the unique nature of the environment in which it resides
In brief –
Permaculture is lifestyle rather than just a homestead garden ,philosophy of sustainable and holistic lifestyle .
Hügelkultur another homestead garden concept introduced by Herrman Andrä in Germany in 1962 just by observation of the diversity and flourishing plants growing in a pile of woody debris- he chalked out the concept of "mound culture" !
Dr. Rudolf Steiner is considered as a father of Biodynamic farming- is a form of alternative agriculture that takes an ecological and ethical approach to farming, food, and gardening.
Masanabu Fukuoka a farmer and philosopher in Japan conceptualized No-till or Natural Farming
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There is no such “one size ,fits all “ templates or plug-n-play when it comes to agriculture or farming – what works for one farmer, in one location , with a specific crop or multi plant species , doesn’t typically translate to another region.
No two farms or farmers are alike.
Nature never creates 2 small grains of sand or plants as same that is what we call diversity ....farming is all about maintaining diversity in the creation !
We humans invented a concept of duplicate ,triplicate , xerox ....
Start with your own without taking any cue from anywhere....soil your own hands , nature will teach you one lesson at a time
