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On The Social Aspects Of Edges In Permaculture

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The essays were created by ChatGPT4 based on the translation of a transcript of a video in which the renowned permaculture teacher Silvia Floresta of the permaculture education center "Aldeia Do Vale" talks about the need to give attention to edges.

 

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The translated (from Portuguese) transcript of Silvia Floresta 's video

Let's talk a little bit about the landscape. This theme is very extensive, so I'm going to talk about something very small and very important, which are the margins. The margins are the most productive places that we can have in the properties and they are usually neglected. We don't plant anything, we don't sow crops, and we don't give any emphasis to the margins.
 
However, the margins are the places where there are energy exchanges and nutrient exchanges. It's where we have more water, it's where we have a lot more fertility in the soil, and it's where we have a lot more soil. The challenge I would like to give you is to observe your margins and give me a little bit of feedback about what grows and what doesn't grow. Usually, the plants that grow on our margins are much bigger. For example, here I see the wild plants, the orchids. Those that grow on the margins have much bigger leaves, and the plants are much bigger than those that grow in other places beyond the margins.
 
Observing this in the landscape, in the property, I want to say that it's a place where I can grow other things. Here we start by growing some of the margins. We have rosemary, and we also leave some silvers because they are an ecological niche. We also have in the garden, like spinach, among other aromatic herbs planted in the garden. So, start growing more of your margins. For example, here the most beautiful broccoli I've ever had were in the gardens.

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The prompt with instructions for ChatGPT4
In the original text the importance of "margins" is mentioned.

This is about marginal areas in a garden. However, permaculture has a social dimension.

Please write a short essay taking the ideas of the text into account in regards of the interest for social change that can develop if giving attention to people and dynamics in the societal social margins.


A glitch in ChatGPT4 made it create not one but two essays.

 

A 3th text was produced by a hyper helpful Chatgpt4 after enquiring about the previous work.

 

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