Ryan Kauffman

Hello Susan,

My name is Ryan Kauffman. I am young budding regenerative farmer interested in your trade proposal regarding sustainable land management in exchange for housing. If you'd like my email is Kauffsalot@gmail.com

Look forward to hearing from you.

Wow! Thank you so much. I really apprecaite it good sir.

Ryan

I've heard of benefits gained from inter-planting. (You know not just mono-cropping all tomatoes in one bed ect..) What works well with what? I think I remember reading somewhere that onions are good to grow with lettuce to keep pests at bay. Other than that I am at a loss. I'd love to hear about some of your techniques/observations. Thanks.

Opps.. this is suppose to be the first image. Still getting use to the uploading format.

This is the first one I made about 4 months ago. As you can see its still producing tomatoes into the beginning of November. The second image is not a hugel just made use of a tree that was cut down on the property. It was been doing very well so I will probably leave as is.

Just finished.

This is the one I'm working on now.

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I live in California about 20 miles east of San Francisco bay. According to the internet my city gets on average 20 inches of rain fall a year.

Hey all I'm new here and have a couple questions regarding Hugelkultur.

Can I simply dig a small trench and pile logs and branches into it and then cover with local soil? Will this work or will I need to add other things such as hay, kitchen scraps, compost?

I have already constructed a couple of these beds with logs and branches. I also added ground tree stumps, (Its relatively fine in texture), and some straw from the chicken coop complete with droppings. Will this work?