Patrik Schumann

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BA Computer Graphics & Scientific Imaging
pursued "design of Man's interaction with Nature"
Apprenticeship in Earth Building & Earthen Architecture
MA Environmental Design: Passive & Low-energy Architecture
Two decades inner-urban high desert radical sustainability/ subsistence horticulture: the 20% homestead
Last drops irrigation conservation & edible biodiversity tree cropping
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Nuevo Mexico, Alta California, New York, Andalucia
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Thanks again, though by alone I mean doing the work for ecological sustainability, regeneration, subsistence, resilience.  My wife's a doctor & my son an 8th grader.  We live together & are close, they tolerate my pursuits, but they could care less about growing our own food.  He does like the primitive skills, survival, fire making, bow hunting, forging, only until it's screen time.  She likes to hike.  Neither much into camping.  Everyone else we know, blood or beyond, is pretty conventional if not rapacious.  I'm not complaining, as much as lamenting the lack of community, & this call is about taking a position in relation to civilisation, "sovereign" states, ruling elites, warmongers, & the endgame.
For me it's been the greatest challenge to essentially have been reduced to doing it all mostly alone, very little of family, little of friends, few working connections out there, seeking & hoping that passing just the setup of technical solutions to only our young son is not my fate.
You can do it all, some here, some there, some that moves you & others between & beyond.  Each of us has our place(s), our circumstances, our directions, our movements, our improvements, adding up, if we will, to greater than the sum of the parts.  Much less bad, much more good, is especially helpful.
Thanks Tess.  I've mostly been in cities too, radically laying/ living/ working low, though with backcountry activities, provisioning, + site projects.  What I'm talking about is we all collaborate however we can wherever we are whatever we're doing to grow something that survives & eventually replaces what's been the discernible direction for decades.  Civilisation tried for millenia & came forcibly out of myriad approaches.  Back to The Garden!
Anyone, to launch collective ecological sovereignty? I long ago declared myself an individual sovereign governed first & foremost by ecological laws of nature & least by historical legacy + forces destroying the future. I live & work within that as best as humanly possible while still associating with everyone around me & carefully avoiding conflict with anyone opposed. It's been a five decade adventure & I carry on-ward & up-ward in unshakeable belief one day everyone will be rushing this direction. Connect, discuss, collaborate?
Check out the Poultry Forage Matrix by Tim Murphy & Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Paul Ussery.  We have a lot of predator pressure, so keep them moved daily in a minimum sf/ chicken tractor setup, then let them out last couple of hours b4 sunset when they tend to skip getting into our plantings to run for their main nutritional interest the bugs they've been tracking all day to finally get back to roost on their own.
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I do my morning walkabout, with warm drink in hand, to savour the rising day/ dew/ plants/ animals, get those first fruit or veg before rodents do, see what's coming of past efforts & what's needed for future, figure when during the rest of everything I'll come out to do my hour of devotional maintenance or transition work.  We're extensive-intensive in drylands, so in every harvest/ disturbance/ rain I do an over- or inter-seeding.  I never fail to find there a task, inspiration, reward.
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Check out Regrarians' very affordable new remote sensing site assessment package, incorporating neighbouring parcels & impacting watersheds.  Look at public data like climate, soil & flood maps; test water; map trees into micro-climate/ keep/ work/ replace; estimate cost/ effort/ result of latter; etc.
2 weeks ago
RFB: Insured/ qualified/ experienced chainsawyer(s) for 100' fuelbreaks 9174' total 22ac thinning first three weeks Nov

Good day, I hope you might put this out to your network around Forestburgh NY 12777 in southern Sullivan county area please, & if you would kindly let me know of any referrals I can contact directly. Thank you, Patrik Schumann 505-255-1933
2 months ago
Good day, I hope you might put this out to your network around Forestburgh NY 12777 in southern Sullivan county area please, & if you would kindly let me know of any referrals I can contact directly. Thank you, Patrik Schumann 505-255-1933
2 months ago