PDC LESSON 1.14 PRINZIPLES ON YIELD

 

PERMACULTURE COURSE   AGRO-ECONOMY

PDC LESSON 1.14 PRINZIPLES ON YIELD

The yield of a system is theoretically unlimited.

DISPERSEL OF FOOD YIELD OVER TIME

·        By selection of early, mid, and late season varieties

·        By planting the same variety in early or late ripening situations.

·        By selection of long-yielding varieties.

·        By a general increase in diversity in the system, so that leaf, fruit, seed and root are all product yields.

·        By using self-storing species such as tubers, hard seeds, nuts, fuel wood, or rhizomes which can be “chopped on demand”.

·        By techniques such as preserving, drying, pitting, freezing, and cool storage.

·        By regional trade between communities, or by the utilization of land at different altitudes or latitudes.

The only limit on the number of uses of a resource possible within a system is in the limit of the information and the imagination of the designer.

Text from the roots, Mollison, Holmgren, Bratt Pitchard