posted 13 years ago
This morning I was trying to gather some facts about portulaca (pursley) on Wiki, and one of the various paragraphs was about companion planting and how good pursley is for ground cover and keeping the soil surface moist, etc.
As you know wiki is made by common people, so every entry is somewhat different. I could very well just have found botanical info about pursley and that's it, but some people eat it, so they wrote about it and in what dishes, etc.
I thought it would be awesome if anyone of you experts could enter permaculture-related info about any plant or structure as you come across them on Wiki.
People would just look up a plant and before they know they would know what it makes a guild with, or what function it has for wind-breaking, accumulating minerals for other plants, etc, and this way people would start thinking along those lines as if it was a very natural thing.
Just my two bits.
Writing from Madhuvan, a yoga retreat/organic farm on the West Coast of Costa Rica.