{"id":55209,"date":"2020-10-03T07:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T12:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55209"},"modified":"2020-10-03T07:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T12:53:01","slug":"ancient-gardens-of-the-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55209","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Gardens of the North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bamboo.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bamboo.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bamboo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bamboo-558x372.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bamboo-272x182.jpg 272w\" alt=\"Bamboo\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><figcaption class=\"single-caption-text\">\u00a0&#8220;Milpa seca&#8221;\u00a0by\u00a0 Carlos_Citalan\u00a0is licensed under\u00a0CC BY-SA 2.0 on flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<header class=\"entry-header-outer\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/2020\/09\/29\/ancient-gardens-of-the-north-america\/\">Ancient Gardens of the North America<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p>Native Americans, like many other ancient civilisations, were clued in on the inner-workings of nature. They found ways to harmonise with it, taking advantage of biological cycles and utilising astute observation to make abundance seem almost fortuitous. But, it wasn\u2019t all luck. Sometimes colonisers simply didn\u2019t (and still don\u2019t) recognise the guiding hand behind these highly productive, innately cooperative systems that were in place when they arrived. We continue to pay a price for that oversight today, and our payments may have only just begun.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons permaculture is such an appealing methodology for creating sustainable homes, gardens, and lifestyles in the modern world is that it so often harkens back to ancient techniques, adopting the logic behind them whilst imbuing them with today\u2019s technological advancements. In this interplay between bygone ingenuity and mechanical diggers, wells of inspiration spring forth for innovative design that keeps us comfortable and, at the same time, emboldens nature to put forth its best work on our behalf.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, perhaps now\u2014amidst Pacific Coast wildfires, cues of hurricanes in the Atlantic, and a pandemic putting the brakes on consume-it-all capitalism\u2014is a good time to revisit what was happening in the gardens of North America a few hundred years ago, before colonisation. Maybe we don\u2019t want to live exactly that way today, minus the internet and all that good stuff, but maybe there are some answers for today\u2019s problems that were overlooked back then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chinampas<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Chinampas - Floating Island Gardens and Self Watering Farmland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iiR_B0jz1qA?start=8&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;Milpa seca&#8221;\u00a0by\u00a0 Carlos_Citalan\u00a0is licensed under\u00a0CC BY-SA 2.0 on flickr Ancient Gardens of the North America Native Americans, like many other ancient civilisations, were clued in on the inner-workings of nature. They found ways to harmonise with it, taking advantage of biological cycles and utilising astute observation to make abundance seem almost fortuitous. 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