Ben Cains

Hey not sure if you have started on your garden yet?

Sheet mulching is wicked agreed.

Do you have a place where you can have chickens? They are a great way to prepare an area for planting. Geoff Lawton uses a mobile chicken coop with an electric fence to prepare the soil for food forests.

Here is a tour of the Permaculture Institute of Australia which shows him and his chickens benefitting from the system

http://permaculturenews.org/2012/06/01/zaytuna-farm-video-tour-apr-may-2012-ten-years-of-revolutionary-design/

Maybe not helpful in your situation?

Sheet mulching is easy to do in urban areas with all the materials being easy to come by and cheap/free.

Good luck

Have you seen greening the desert with Geoff Lawton?

There was a type of mushroom that was growing in the swale, it was making the salt inert and dispelling the salt away from the area?

Here is the link for the video:



Maybe try contact Geoff or the Permaculture Research Institute with a email to see if he knows which type it was?

Good luck