My last post dealt with the permaculture edible forest garden, and it
received some commentary on a couple of Facebook groups and
permaculture forums.
A lot of the responses were, predictably, from
permaculture advocates who took umbrage at my having deigned to critique
their philosophy at all, but there was one very valid criticism
concerning yields: while I had compared weights of different crops per
acre, a more useful approach would be to compare calorific yield.
Doing
this for the crops I listed gives a result looking something like this:
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Feedback on the Forest Garden
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