klomasius
02-28-2011, 04:56 PM
Hi everyone,
this weekend just gone by I had the priviledge of spending time on my friend's vegan permaculture property. She has a vision of growing everything using vegan permaculture and has made wonderful progress in the 6 months since she seriously started.
Most people who garden via permaculture principles use things like blood and bone, fishmeal and animal manure. She believes these are not necessary and currently uses green manures and will also be using vegan compost teas (she's asked for my help on that one as I'm a microbiologist by training and fascinated by all things cultured.)
There is precedent for veganic gardening, especially in the UK, with the Vegan Organic Network (www.veganorganic.net) and their wonderful magazine Growing Green. My friend is taking the organic thing one step further with permaculture (permanent agriculture) and has created a 'Food Forest' on a half acre of land with dozens of trees, and countless vegetables, herbs and other food plants and many more to come.
I've found her work a wonderful inspiration personally, as I'd eventually like to do the same and I now have the opportunity to learn in a practical setting.
I've often encountered people who garden via permaculture principles who are very skeptical of doing it veganically, saying it's not possible to do this that and the other without animals and their products. When I ask them if they have tried, they always say no, even if I ask them if anybody they know of has tried it, they know no one. I think it's a paradigm that many people are set in, just as with food, that these things are necessary.
p.s. her garden is FLOURISHING! Even on the cruddy soil she started off with!
What are your thoughts on veganic gardening? does anyone here garden by those principles?
this weekend just gone by I had the priviledge of spending time on my friend's vegan permaculture property. She has a vision of growing everything using vegan permaculture and has made wonderful progress in the 6 months since she seriously started.
Most people who garden via permaculture principles use things like blood and bone, fishmeal and animal manure. She believes these are not necessary and currently uses green manures and will also be using vegan compost teas (she's asked for my help on that one as I'm a microbiologist by training and fascinated by all things cultured.)
There is precedent for veganic gardening, especially in the UK, with the Vegan Organic Network (www.veganorganic.net) and their wonderful magazine Growing Green. My friend is taking the organic thing one step further with permaculture (permanent agriculture) and has created a 'Food Forest' on a half acre of land with dozens of trees, and countless vegetables, herbs and other food plants and many more to come.
I've found her work a wonderful inspiration personally, as I'd eventually like to do the same and I now have the opportunity to learn in a practical setting.
I've often encountered people who garden via permaculture principles who are very skeptical of doing it veganically, saying it's not possible to do this that and the other without animals and their products. When I ask them if they have tried, they always say no, even if I ask them if anybody they know of has tried it, they know no one. I think it's a paradigm that many people are set in, just as with food, that these things are necessary.
p.s. her garden is FLOURISHING! Even on the cruddy soil she started off with!
What are your thoughts on veganic gardening? does anyone here garden by those principles?