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2.2 KiB
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115 lines
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4. TROPICS
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Developing a Food System
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20. HAWAII
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("the Big Island"), HAWAII.
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Fresh a ’a lava flow has been crushed and levelled by tractor,
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spot-mulched with compost and Macadamia nut husks, and
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irrigated. See 21 for growth in 1 year. Steve Skipper inspecting.
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USDAtriaI.
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22. MOLOKA'I, HAWAII (Lat. 28°); Sub—tropical
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chicken tractor system.
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Developed by Dario Gorsich. Foreground is 6 weeks of vegetable
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growth following the clearing of the chicken tractor (5 pans in 0.5
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ha). Dana and his wife, and members of the Busby family stand at
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the front edge at a papaya system which is 2.5 years old. Chickens
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(Australorps) are moved from pen to pen over the year to clear
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weeds and grasses; they get most of their food from fallen papaya,
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seed, Insects, and greens. Income from their eggs and papaya at the
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Ioca: cooperative plus home garden largely support the Gorsich
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lami y.
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24. MAUI, HAWAII.
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Kikuyu grass. Here, people have planted Tagetes (marigold) around
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their avocado tree to kill, and form a barrier to, the grasses.
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21. HAWAII ("The Big Island“), Hawaii
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Growth of trees in one year on a 'a lava site; more extensive mulch
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enables interplant, Numbers 2|] and 21 reveal that mulch plus water
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can establish valuable trees an apparently hostile sites, here mango,
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citrus, macadamia, guava,
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23. MOLOKA'I,
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HAWAII.
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Traditional Hawaiian garden
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combines banana, papaya,
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chili, and taro. Pigs fed
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from surplus, chickens
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range below system.
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Developed by iMU and
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RACHEL (RAHELA) NAKI.
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Together with fish and
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home garden. this is a
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self—reliant and commercial
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system.
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25. KAIWAKA. Nth IS.
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NEW ZEALAND.
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Instant garden or 7
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jungle
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About 18 months previously, ' '
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this was pasture. KAY
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BAXTER first set up a small
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nursery, then set out (at one
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time) a windbreak of eucalypt
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and blackwood (Acacia
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melanoxylon), and an
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interplant of nasturtium
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comlrey, sweet potato
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(ground covers); banana, ’
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tagasaste. taro (under-
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storey); and a scatter oi
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Acacia, guava, mulberry, ,
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citrus, apple. peach, etc. as
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fruit crop. Grass is
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suppressed and the system
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co—evolves. Mulch from
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comfrey, tagasaste is thrown
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around lruit trees.
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