Bob Lawrason

Great suggestions, most I have used with excellent results, Some new ones listed in this thread I'll add to mine. Ones that were not listed I have used with success here in northern Michigan are: buckwheat, winter rye, hairy vetch, kenaf, hazelnuts, pears, manna oak, and Siberian pea shrub. Although I have just started 2 years ago, the deer coming by are spending an hour or so browsing instead of the 5 minutes before.

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Bread Made With Kenaf Flour

3/4 cup oil
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp yeast
4 tbsp kenaf meal
4 tbsp flax meal
2 cups Whole Wheat all purpose flour

Mix water, sugar, salt, and yeast in a dough mixer.
Add kenaf, flax, whole wheat.
Mix well. Add flour to make a soft but firm dough.
Knead well. Should not be sticky and sides of bowl
should be clean. Transfer to bowl lined with oil.
Flip over to oil all sides. Cover with a towel or
plastic wrap and put in a warm place to use till
about double in size.

What I would consider as a large scale permaculture system would be a continent by continent integrated system within the biosphere of earth. In designing these integrated systems looking at the ideal scenes 7 generations into the future with all the petals of the flower not just the ones associated with farming. Think globally act locally. Describing these ideals scenes would be general statements that would be applicable anywhere. Abundant, healthy water available locally for example. There may be different ways to accomplish this depending on resources and other factors. There are sequences that apply i.e. quantity first then quality, sustainable first then resilient and finally regenerative. Cultures of the past and cultures of the future can be quite diverse and each of them although different could be in harmony with each other based on the needs and production of each. So who has the best large scale system? That depends on which system fully covers all the petals of the flower, is applicable to the location, makes sense based on resources and needs (supply and demand), does the most good with the least harm and where each petal is measured in terms of sustainable/resilient/regenerative with the quantity needed for the community it serves. There is no one size fits all and each have their own merits when applied under similar circumstances. In fact there may be no reason why a little of each could be incorporated into designs for our future.

More technical details for Russel https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/energy/hemp-carbon-makes-supercapacitors-superfast

Here is one that addresses hemp, super capacitors replacing batteries and reference to nano sheets.

https://ministryofhemp.com/blog/hemp-supercapacitors/

The most ethical batteries or a renewable energy system will be high capacity storage batteries made from the kenaf plant. Kenaf is renewable where I don't see lithium or nickel-iron as being renewable at all. Please correct me if I am mistaken. Preliminary tests with industrial hemp high capacity storage batteries took place in an electric vehicle that traveled 200 miles before needing recharging. What surprised me is that the time it took to recharge was 5-6 seconds. Preliminary experiments with kenaf show promise of being capable of being a resource for kenaf solar nano sheets. In theory 3 nano sheets thick, stronger than Kevlar and 75% more efficient. It is expected to have a workable prototype with manufacturing specs in the near future. Once the specs are available we will be able to evaluate the overall process and determine just how ethical kenaf may be, and if it should be used in renewable energy systems.

I am looking for Permaculture Designers in Texas familiar with the plants that would/could be used in food forests near Corpus Christi Texas.

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