albertpostema Hatfield

NOT weed free.  Great for mulching, mushrooms,etc.

Organic grains in the Valley!! Organic grains in the valley!!!  Wow..wow...wow.  Sometimes its easy to fret that "more" needs to be done...and THEN...you look around and see just how many people recoonecting to our agricultural roots.  Yee haw....

Any way...forgive my missive..We are starting to get ready for harvest, combine has been brought over last fall, test run, she is just itching to get out and do some harvesting!! Which leads to this question.

>>> The harvesting procedure allows us to either mulch the outfall, and it goes back to the land, or if there is enough interest, we set it for straw. But that means we track down rake and baler, etc, etc.  If it was picked up in the field, minimum 40 bales, $5per bale, If we start moving them around, especially into storage, then $7-10 per bale, dependant on quantity. <<<<

Time dated question. 1 week, By Aug 1. Thanks
Go summer

ps. The Hugelkutures are already past 30' tall in 2.4year, heading for 40' this year. Second canopy...oh yeah. We have been pruning up and leaving lots of stripped branches. The bird life seems like it has doubled each year from a barren gravel field 3 yrs ago.

pssst.  who knows what can happen when we start growing grains again...

Its the speed, where they walk, type of wood, and how the coals are made.
At the basics.   

But....

There is a very substantial etheric/intention/preparation
process though before.  It is this process that makes the firewalk a very
powerful experience.

If you grow the food, harvest the food, cook the food, and then eat the food in a sacred manner and in a sacred place and way, you will have an amazing, unforgetable meal.

One of our community members, Shelby Shrauner, has completed her
training and in honor of that we are having a firewalk on the 4th of July.

Its an all day preparartion with participants getting the wood, preparing, and starting with ceremony, meditation, and ritual.

Quite something.

and about 1.5 cord of wood.

I believe its $165 and profits will benefit the weel

www.wiseearth.org
contact Shelby  425-231-9915

He propogates lots of trees from an existing tree? 

no pruning...no grafting?

hmmm

pitchforks and torches....ha

(just a note ...im biased )

double ha...all the better

Pitchforks and torches.

We have one 5yr old Duroc sow, about 450 pounds, and she goes through 40 pounds of green compost a day. Sometimes that is not available and we have done 8-10 pounds grain.  Sepp has 3-4 sows/large pigs?    hmmm.

Pitchforks and torches....ha

argh...had a great response...but some back/forth issue dumped it all, great topic.  Quick recap for i gotta get the new chicken Hilton going.

1. Build soil like your life depends on it.  (it does)
2. Giant deficits always equal Giant inflation
3. Ag, trucks, highway subsidized big time, using your dollars wastefully.
    THIS WILL STOP
4. Our food come from CAL. become real expensive
5. give it 2-9 year, its coming
6. Secure your land, get land, or be with people who do.
7. It will become profitable as we both adjust our thinking and
true cost accounting takes place. Which is a given when we have to slash
programs and subsidies.
8. Permaculture is not sending money to far off places to be sent back piecemeal
9. Folks...a giant amount of "money" evaporated.

Buckle down
13. True permanent culture is keeping the cycle close to home. So if we truly
practiced permaculture,
no taxes = more soil = more food = richness beyond compare

Kelda rocks...I like building good things with her. If any of you get that chance, jump at it.  Can we clone her?   hmmmm 

Tuesday nights till further notice @ 1313 - 2nd St Snohomish
6pm-7 cook/talk
7-8 eat/talk
8-9 focused talk
9 go home

since we do so respect Chris and his willingness to open his home up to
the permies. yaay Chris

ps. his website is wolfcamp.com
ps.2 for anyone interested, Chris is looking to change worlfcamp into a cooperative venture for any of you interested in wilderness schools and
looking to get in on the ground floor of a well organized situation.

Hi everyone, new here, yet it already feels like home. Thanks Paul for the heads up.

Just throwing in three and a half cents on this dog manure issue. We have just recently worked on a "pet policy" for a newly forming deep ecological community.   The parasite issues, the composition of the manure, etc were all valid issues. ie; are they eating organic food? If not what is in their food? Concerns were for our organic certification, as well as general health safety and the community values. 

END RESULT   First, if we have it, dog manure is organic matter and should be kept onsite.  No free ranging though, to control random dispersal.  All manure collected and composted seperatly in a dry location with the end results being added to the composted paper stream.  This mixture is then put into into the tree based hugelkulture. 

(Paper recycling is really just a different way to throw away garbage. Dont let your organic matter leave, COMPOST )

Secondly,  discussion about  pet compatibility with deep ecology tabled.
    Hopefully for awhile...ha.

ps. I have attached a produced document full of web research on dog manure and its ecological impacts.  The EPA identifies dog manure as a non-point source of pollution, so its definitly not benign.