So my parents have a couple of parcels of land in South Carolina that are completely overgrown with kudzu, which, being from CT I had never before heard of. I have a lot more to learn about permaculture before finding a botanical solution that we can plant to rid the land of the invasive species, but take a look at this article from the Times re specially trained goats and their use in reducing kudzu:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/us/05goats.html?ex=1338696000&en=7965e814b49e840b&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
elements of the natural world in the urban landscape and musings of an amateur gardener planting in a teeny tiny backyard
Chapter Two
welcome readers, to the rebirth of backyard in brooklyn. i plan to continue to document the amazing growth of my garden, which this year is nearly double in size and includes more varieties of herbs and vegetables. additionally, i will focus on the profound presence of the natural world within city borders. while this is currently a hot subject for the media and public sentiment, i fear that we will soon have a huge green hangover and return to ignoring the possibility of connecting to the rhythm of the earth, which we cannot do lest we find ourselves homeless, without a grass bed on which to lay.
binghamton urban gardener
Excursions
Links! Some things I like, some things I talk about.
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
Thoreau from Walden
Thoreau from Walden
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