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HABSTINE NEWS Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020 — Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page A—13 What do you com compost from your animals, woodlot and garden as well as your groceries? Do you conserve moisture with wood chips and use your gray water? Here on Harstine Island, that also means you’re en- , couraging.mushrooms and therefore bees. . And depending on the wood chips you’re using, you might also be fertilizing with leached nitrogen. , You might already be a ’ permacultur- ist, but it’s scaled more toward a spectrum than an either/or position and sometimes it’s purely accidental. Jacqueline Freeman might not have intended to thin her slug-population by stacking rocks in cairns. She might have been trying to make neat work of double—digging her soil; trench and pile soil, deeply loosen the compacted trench bottom, then amend the pile with compost and replace it. The excluded rocks look'best in piles or bordering beds. When she noticed that garter snakes were sheltering under the rocks and emerging to eat the slugs that had been denuding her beets, she realized she had done what permaculture calls “function stacking.” She had improved her garden beds, removed rocks, and created habitat for a natural predator of a superabundant and invasive pest. Pest control in permaculture takes many forms. Wood vinegar, a byproduct of charcoal production, can be used to control pests such as cabbage worm. Effective microorganisms (EM) are believed to im- prove nutrient density, crop health and resilience, but‘like many folk practices, your mileage may vary. Anybody who has planted perennials-or tree crops has committed permaculture. The degree of commit- ment extends if the perennial is edible, and that means tasty to more than humans. “Earth care, people care, fair share” is a basic per- maculture doctrine, so deer have just as much right If you compost, are the inputs to your By ALEX FETHIERE post? You may be a permaculturist to your tree collards. Just protect them so deer browse won’t kill them. What makes perennial tree collards a permaculture plant is not just their yearly crop of big, tender purple leaves. Its resis- tance to Our slugs and deer means freedom from sprays and traps. Most important, it creates community. A cutting can be made of any branch with five leaf nodes, rooted, and given away. Permaculture borrowed from barter economies, so pay it forward. In a sense, permaculture takes the best ' low-impact, broad-benefit ideas from ev- erywhere and braids them into a permanent culture stronger than its strands. The Three Sisters model of planting beans, squash and corn together is pres- ent in many indigenous lifeways, but the Iroquois Confederacy gave it a cute name and good story. Similarly, permaculture was coined by some non— indigenous Australians in the 19605, but the concept stood on the shoulders of giants, and the autonomy built into its practices has broad appeal. Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms in Virginia shows permaculture is profitably scalable in grass-based, direct-marketed animal husbandry. Ben Falk restored an exhausted 10-acre hill farm in Vermont and built a thriving consulting business eventually becoming the nation’s biggest supplier of sea berries. Toby Hemenway (rest in peace) applied permaculture to the Pacific Northwest in his 2009 book “Gaia’s Garden” which became a classic and is currently in its second edition. And mushroom mes- siah Paul Stamets runs his visionary mycelial em- pire out of our very own Shelton. What these very different people have in common includes emphaSis on .localism, resilience, regen- erative systems, and self-reliance. 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