Ted Jurney

I'm glad you shared this. I need a home unit, and have been researching for a while now, found Tim's page to be very good. I also hope to set up a small control area, deliver some to one are and not to the other for comparison.

Ok yeah, just checked out the site, THAT GUY has a microscope, so never mind. Also no mesh bag. Very cool, and thats an interesting site. Very interested on how this goes.

Very cool. Will you be diluting before application? Like this design. Compost suspended in a bag? Do you have a microscope? Id like to start using AACT here at home and at farm. Whats your application plan?

Yes indeed! Thanks again!

Stefan-
Thank you so much for your reply. The creator of this orchard passed away in 2004 and every day since then my wife and I have been ruminating, stressing, obsessing (on my part) dreaming, fighting, wondering and asking about what direction to go. I have talked to lots of folks, read some books, visited some orchards and I have to tell you: Your words of encouragement and a simple permaculture plan brought tears to my eyes. Good tears. I cant express how much these words, combined with then watching The Man Who Planted Trees this morning, and aside from being a blubbering mess of emotions, I actually feel good about all of this for the first time in a long, long, long time. Thank you.
I very much am interested in a phone consultation, and will contact you offline.
I really do feel like buying 12 copies of the DVD and just arbitrarily giving them to people, that may happen...
Thanks to you, Paul, and Permies everywhere!

Quick question: I too have a conventional, monoculture orchard, much of it dead/dying. Plus we have a serious infestation of Russian olive trees everywhere as well. It has "overtaken" hundreds of trees. It seems everyone, starting with the local ag people from the state university to national experts all saying everything has to be "ripped out". This for us is a potential deal breaker, or "deal setter back another few years". Why does everything have to be ripped out? This would require a bulldozer or whatever and dump truck, crews of people...tens of thousands probably. My plan, all I can afford, is cutting flush, then sheet mulching heavily over the stump, leaving the roots to rot. Is this not a good idea? I have 18 acres of a dead/dying orchard. In serious need of help and consultation!

I'll be interested as to the response here. You are about a year ahead of me! Love to see some pix. My understanding with huglekultur and other raised bed techniques is that its about adding and building _up_, so your initial thoughts are probably on the right track. You do much perennials and shrubs or all annuals, or a nice combo? I re-read and see you mentioned polyculture...
Have yet to build mine!

Yes! Thanks, Julia. I've got lots of dead trees and invasive russian olives by the thousands...talk about a paradigm shift: I used to lament all of this, and worry about what to do with all that, now I look at the dead parts and stands of RO as future huglekultur beds and bio-char...
I really would like to make a bunch of biochar, charge it with fish or compost tea, then do some control plots...
Thanks for putting up, food for thought...

Ok. My first post. I just signed up. I'm reeeeeeeeally glad Paul just mentioned it, I am mathematically and time-zone challenged, was going to stay up tonight instead. Anyhoo, just clicked on over and did it. So I am in, excited, ready to rock. And yes, this forum helped. Good arguments pro and con. See you in the course!