D2B- Lancaster Farming Saturday, Novembar 18,1989
(Continued from Pag* D 26)
the university’s 600-acre campus,
is being turned from a near dust
bowl existence into a functioning,
growing farm facility. “The farm
house renovations will allow us to
house a resident staff, making the
facility a working model,” boasts
Macoskey.
Upgrading the house already
under way includes extensive
renovations. “We will be install
ing photovoltaic cells to generate
a portion of the home’s electricity
and will be using all types of ener
gy saving and energy conserving
devices as part of the design and
utilization of natural resources,”
says the self-made, farm-energy
manager.
Macoskey’s eyes are not only
on providing a working model. He
hopes the expansion will draw
additional funding to the project.
“We are really in a position to
offer farming alternatives to the
agricultural world.”
He points out the “sweat of the
faithful” has gone into the project
thus far. “There is a hand-dug
pond at the farm. It is 30-feet long,
15-fcet wide and 5-feet deep. It
was dug in the heat and in the rain
by volunteers, including women,
scooping up the clay in their hands
and carrying it away.”
The pond, however, follows the
multiple-use credo of ALTER.
“There is also what is known as a
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‘l,OOO-year hedge’ designed for a
multitude of purposes. It is very
dense so it provides a sound barri
er; it also provides a site barrier;
and is a constraint barrier for
keeping in poultry and keeping
out other wildlife. It is interp
lanted with Russian olive to attract
useful creatures -- insect preda
tors: thus the fence indirectly pro
vides a means of getting rid of
unwanted mosquitos.
And with all of this, Macoskey
seeks more. “We are grafting
pears to the hawthorn, thus the
fence will provide edible fruit It
was placed so that it provides
shade for the on-farm pond thus it
helps slow evaporation, and, of
course, the pond provides the
water for the growth of the fence.”
There are fish in the pond that will
someday provide food for the
farm’s owners and the food the
fish eat is provided by the under
water plants and insects drawn
naturally to the water.
‘This is just one example of the
kind of thing that can be done
when permaculture farming is
introduced. It is really an attempt
to blend common sense with some
knowledge and understanding of
the environment. Nearly every
project on the farm has at least two
primary purposes, and some have
a half dozen or more.”
The philosophy-professor
turned-agriculturist, chuckles
when asked how far the project
can actually go. He truly sees the
sky as the limit.
One proposal, though admitted
ly far-fetched at present, is for a
$3O million permaculture center
on the SRU campus designed not
only for classroom and learning
laboratory work, but also as a visi
tors’ learning center.
“We could show the world how
permaculture can succeed. We are
the only university vigorously
pursuing the subject, but there is
growing interest on other
agricultural-related college cam
puses,” says the enthusiastic
Macoskey.
To show the worldwide Impor
tance of the project, he points out
that the laboratory’s chief farmer,
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