Bert Harvey 'Tentamus'

I certainly will, you've really got my interest piqued. For a country so large, to generated that much of their food production is remarkable.  Even more so considering how rough their growing conditions seem to be.

i certainly wasn't disparaging your comment, just being dubious of the Ringing Cedars reference.  I'm still on the fence about that group.

i take a lot of the Ringing Cedars stuff with a grain of salt. did you find independent citations of those claims?

What sparked me wondering was the documentary "The Future of Food", which delved into GMO policies and the efforts of different groups to get better labeling and testing done on them.

It seemed that there are numerous countries in the UK who've taken a hard line against GMO foods, as well as many nations in Africa.  It got me wondering which countries are on the side of right when it comes to food production and which, well, aren't

I've been researching GMO crops and government policy in the US and, well, it has me really curious as to which nations have the best agricultural/food policies (best by what we here would consider key - sustainability, biodiversity, nutritional density, food safety, etc).

I'm pretty new at poking into this, so i'm not sure where to start.

Howdy permie peoples,

recently I found out, through my permaculture course, that where I live (seattle, WA) shares many characteristics with Chile in terms of what can grow here.  So now I'm really curious about finding any books that talk about the gardening traditions of chile, edible or beneficial plants of chile, and if anyone has seen good companion planting information?

Any leads on this would be greatly appreciated!  (I saw Rose's post about spanish permaculture resources and saw that there were some references to Chile, so I really hope she can shed some light on this since I can't read spanish well enough to glean what I need from that thread)

Cheers!

yeah, i can't get behind this e-reader movement. I don't like the idea of not owning my books. When I read about kindle quietly pulling titles from user's libraries that kindle had lost the license rights to offer on their service, I knew it wasn't for me (ironically, the titles they pulled were the works of George Orwell - including 1984)


On Topic, I've installed a couple home-made ollas in my garden (garden pots caulked together) and have a control garden without ollas going as well.  I'm hoping to get my hands on some hollow terra cotta balls for some saturated soil tests this weekend.

on here, among other permies.

I think that it was more that most folks don't label themselves as such, so meeting another person who openly admits to it is a nice surprise

I'm in!

Bert Harvey. I don't have a website per se, but I do run the NW Restoration group on facebook where I post random bits of information from all over the web regarding landscape restoration, permaculture, climate news, environmental policy/legislation, and anything that strikes me as interesting to folks who would be interested in these topics

please do! i'm a data junky and a bibliophile, so the more books I can reference in my research the happier I am.

If you don't mind my asking, what lead you to researching that topic?