This is my dream: To live as my forefathers once did - in harmony with the land that sustains us. A project to investigate and innovate the creation of a low impact home with methods of living in a form of permaculture designed to sustain my family and improve biodiversity. To leave the land richer than before and in doing so enable others to do so.
People, like grass need get thirsty
Posted 01/07/09 by Matt B in the Urban category
People are a lot like grass - when rich in water grass prospers but leave it dry and it struggles to survive.
Similarly the area of Thanet is struggling because there is a lack of "water" to keep the shops and businesses open.
As a green fingered soul I know that there are two options when the soil you have is not easily sustaining the plants there.
The first option is to seek outside input such as a hose pipe and some chemical soil enrichment agent. This requires an unsustainable effort but is a short term fix.
The second option is to consolidate. Overly demanding plants should be cut back and plants that are not coping can be trimming to make it easier for them to continue. This material can then be used to create food for the plants in the form of compost. In extreme conditions one might even have to divert water from one area and let it die in order to sustain another area.
What would never work is to divert some water from each area in order to establish a new area. Sadly for Thanet this is what is being attempted and the economy is as dry as the grass.
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