{"id":494,"date":"2018-12-21T21:32:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2018-12-24T03:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T08:49:55","slug":"on-the-issue-of-native-vs-exotic-plants-in-permaculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/on-the-issue-of-native-vs-exotic-plants-in-permaculture\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Issue of Exotic and Native Plants in Permaculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Wheaton in a Permaculture Keynote, discussing the role of exotic plants in permaculture systems to maximize net benefit of productive conservation:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Native plants are important and most permaculture systems are made up of them &#8211; I can&#8217;t think of a permaculture system that didn&#8217;t! &#8211; but a lot of people keen on native plants believe that you should only plant native plants. I ask them: what do you eat? Nearly all of them eat food that&#8217;s not native, at least a little bit every week. Most people, 99% of their diet is not native.&#8217; By gardening, people can grow a lot of their food, and gardening can serve as conservation while also providing many benefits! Some invasive plants certainly aren&#8217;t suitable for intentional planting and cultivation, but where&#8217;s that fine line? There are many useful plants which were once exotic and are now considered staples.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6vZPTPIHO8w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=8953&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And a more detailed description\/conclusion of the overall presentation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;food problems, fuel problems, petroleum and irrigation &#8211; we&#8217;ve solved a lot of these problems and we just need to get the word out and more people doing this around the world. &#8230; We could go be angry, but I think it&#8217;s much better to keep sharing the info we&#8217;re sharing, pass it on as much as we can share&#8230;it&#8217;s very important! &#8230;we&#8217;re doing something wrong, and the solution just turns out to be that shaking your fist at bad guys just isn&#8217;t really doing the trick. However we have other means, and thankfully it&#8217;s much a much smoother ride to tell somebody about an idea than to be angry at them.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Wheaton in a Permaculture Keynote, discussing the role of exotic plants in permaculture systems to maximize net benefit of productive conservation: &#8216;Native plants are important and most permaculture systems are made up of them &#8211; I can&#8217;t think of a permaculture system that didn&#8217;t! &#8211; but a lot of people keen on native plants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72shx-7Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alchemicalnursery.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}