Don Ritter

Doesnt Australia have many MILLIONS of feral donkeys that are wreaking havoc there? Someone was just remarking about one more bad situation for Australia....

Have experience with chickens. What works is placing a "mat" of "concrete reinforcement wire" around an area. If the "holes" are squares up to 6x6 inch, chickens will leave it alone when they encounter the metal wire. Garden areas you can place your new food plants within the 6 inch squares and the chickens wont dig around them. It saves the garden plantings and inhibits chickens from scratching. They don't seem to like the texture of metal and the wire does not allow them to get down far or fast enough for their liking.... You can reuse these concrete reinforcement wires over and over.

Here are some other ideas --

Restart a bobwhite quail covey who NEED this type of habitat and have disappeared because people remove these kinds of piles....

Second, if you have a hill area or know someone who does, use the brush to create "swales" perpendicular to the downslope to slow water run off and create a soil area for new productive trees for fruit, nuts, etc....

What impressed me the most is the question about whether how many of us will be part of the permaculture in 2039? What will the world be like then and how many will continue the perma culture values and knowledge forward?? Makes moments like that even more special....

This is what someone who knows the history shared with me --

"Rocket stoves are not actually all that clean.

It already has a name, it is called the Walker Stove. If you want a better version just get plans from Matt Walker at Walker Stoves.

So leave the Rocket Mass heater where it is, an older technology that was a stage on the way to clean burning.

Dr TLUD has on his site about Rockets Stoves in regard to cooking. He is the one saying they are not really clean." [/b]
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Perhaps this may be helpful or not....