Greetings from the Hudson Valley

 I have been reading/researching on this site for a while now but I recently decided to join and see if I could contribute to the large amount of information I have found here.
 For many years we had a small garden on the side of the house which gave us a few vegetables but a couple of years ago we decided to try a larger setup and I spent many months preparing a 30ftby30ft fenced garden area.  This has been doing well, of course this year’s drought really put a hurt on most of the crops.  
 I have very sandy/gravelly so it took several months of adding compost from the large leaf piles I had on the property.  My kids decided to help by getting me composting worms and I started bins in the garage.  After setting up pallet style compost bins I added hot bins to my list of compost making.  Over the years the soil continues to improve and the size of the garden area continues to grow.  If it wasn’t obvious I have a lot of  interest in composting & casting and I have spent years learning about these topics.
 We live in an area with many yard restrictions ( the joys of living in the suburbs) but thankfully no HOA so I have to be careful with my choices and setups.  So far the garden and compost bins have been left alone from the power that be.
 I have been learning about permaculture and trying to figure out what I can add into the garden with hopes of adding more into the yard over time.


 

Hi Duane,

careful,
this forum is addictive and you will get a ton of info about just anything what nature provides and demands right hammered into your head if you ask in the different topics.

Beside, here are the people who learn from mistakes and so you will not find any smack talkers and bullies as in other forums.

Worm compost in the garage, so your Permaculture Garden expands on Paved/Concrete areas, that's cool...

The drought.... a story for itself and just the pike of the iceberg I fear.

In NY you have cold winters but there must be something you can set up as a water body and deco on one go,
you might can put on another paved area.
When you need the soil space for veggies this could be also a part of your water management system in your small scale Permaculture garden.  
(Permaculture starts with water management, no matter how big or small)

In Thailand for example almost everyone has some pots with plants and water as deco and to lure Mosquitoes.
Guppies do not need oxygen and they eat the Mosquitoes and their Larvae..
Half of the water will be regularly changed and given to the plants (incl. fish poop as fertilizer)  

welcome and enjoy the permie community here..