{"id":2858,"date":"2009-06-10T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T21:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2009-06-10T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T21:48:50","slug":"gaining-from-and-giving-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2858","title":{"rendered":"Gaining from and giving back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Dyan Moon<\/p>\n

\"newwork09\"Paula Westmoreland from Ecological Gardens came out today and gave us a walk through, explaining the plants and their relationships.\u00a0 The real distinctiveness of permaculture lies in developing and nurturing those relationships, using plants together in ways that are mutually beneficial.\u00a0\u00a0 An easy to understand example is the familiar legume family, a group of plants that fix nitrogen in the soil.\u00a0 Since most plants deplete nitrogen in the soil, following a planting of a non-legume, especially if it’s a heavy feeder like, say, tomato or corn, with a legume helps restore the soil chemistry.<\/p>\n

There are also plants that tend to confuse insects with their scents;\u00a0 since many of those fit in the herb garden, the herb spiral sits in a key corner of the new design, fooling predatory insects as they head toward our beans and strawberries.\u00a0 Over time these relationships interleave and become stronger, the soil chemistry becomes healthier and the result is a stronger, less insect and disease prone garden.\u00a0 This long term strength of permaculture makes it a wise investment for any yard or garden.<\/p>\n

In the orchard and our new vegetable garden design we now have clover in place of grass.\u00a0 It crowds out weeds, can take being stepped on and should\u00a0 provide good tasting honey in years to come.<\/p>\n

The gestalt here has begun to feel real.\u00a0 We are less like human intruders on this oak savannah and more like c0-inhabitants, gaining from and giving back in the timeless cycle of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Dyan Moon Paula Westmoreland from Ecological Gardens came out today and gave us a walk through, explaining the plants and their relationships.\u00a0 The real distinctiveness of permaculture lies in developing and nurturing those relationships, using plants together in ways that are mutually beneficial.\u00a0\u00a0 An easy to understand example is the familiar legume family, … Continue reading Gaining from and giving back<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,336],"tags":[1648,882,1605,1647],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-work","category-permaculture","tag-clover","tag-ecological-gardens","tag-herb-spiral","tag-legumes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}