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We learned in PDC course that the ancient Chinese farmers built fancy outhouses along the roadways beside eir farms to entice travellers to deposit their humanure; the farmers were competing with each other for the ‘honour’. Modern times we are phobic about it. Jenkins wrote Humanure Handbook to educate us all.
yes PDC is that, sorry for the jargon. I took it several times: last one with Albert B in Belize. Peter Bane is my main teacher/mentor over the years. See his book The Permaculture Handbook, Garden Farming for town and country.
We learned in PDC course that the ancient Chinese farmers built fancy outhouses along the roadways beside eir farms to entice travellers to deposit their humanure; the farmers were competing with each other for the ‘honour’. Modern times we are phobic about it. Jenkins wrote Humanure Handbook to educate us all.
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Thanks Ian! Very interesting! I didn’t know about such practice. Is PDC course “Permaculture Design Course”?
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yes PDC is that, sorry for the jargon. I took it several times: last one with Albert B in Belize. Peter Bane is my main teacher/mentor over the years. See his book The Permaculture Handbook, Garden Farming for town and country.
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Thank you, Ian. And thanks for reference on the permaculture book.
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