Jim Garlits

I was reminiscing on threads from when I first started posting here, and I'm tickled to see how many recommendations I ran with.

Bees. Pond. grocery row garden, herb spiral, berries, fruit and nut trees, soil building through compost, foliar sprays, wood chips, charged biochar, chop and drop.

Now this has me thinking about mushrooms. I get puffballs in the spring and summer, but they're huge. And bland. And needing some neighbors. I've got fallen logs in my black walnut ditch that I should be able to innoculate. I'll see what happens!

Jim

S Bengi wrote:Around the perimeter you can plant fruit trees and or vines on the fence line.
I really like your recommendation of having 2-3 beehive. With a 50% survival rate for bees at least 2 hives are needed.
Growing some fish and chicken/egg onsite sounds like an awesome idea.
A dedicated vegetable garden sounds like the very 1st step.
Second would be a herb garden: mint/thyme family, garlic/onion family, celery/lovage/carrot family.
I have had great luck with oyster and wine cap mushroom.
Berries sound like the next thing to get a quick harvest from.
Fruit trees and nut trees sound good too. I like to get mines from starks bros, onegreenworld, and a few local places.

There is also the soil building part of things: swales, mulch, woodchip, tillage/daikon radish, dutch clover, aerated compost tea/fertigation

The Regenerative Garden by Stephanie Rose.

That's a no brainer. I just bought this for Willow Acre:

Here's a fresh post of my Bocking 14 comfrey taken this morning for reference.

Jim

If we're voting, I'll put five scarlet runner bean seeds on Bocking 14, which tend to fall in the blue to purple spectrum. It's what I have in my orchard, which isn't truly a food forest yet but probably will become so thie summer.

Jim

Judith Browning wrote:beautiful!!!

do you happen to know the variety of comfrey I see there in previous photos that has those bright blue blooms?
I have that one and have been trying to ID.

Come Grab Your Relations, everybody! Well done.

Jim

The planting would have me quivering for any signs of progress each time I passed them. Ha ha. It sprouted! It's an inch tall now!

Jim

quote=paul wheaton]

Jim Garlits wrote:I would consider myself blessed to have that view for my daily walks. Boring?

Three years.

I like the idea that i can build a network of trails that will take me ALL of my steps all over the property.  And i plant lots of things along those trails.

I would consider myself blessed to have that view for my daily walks. Boring? Each day you go out, look for something different. Something that has changed. "One of these things is not like the others" sort of dealio.

Jim

paul wheaton wrote:I am supposed to put in a bunch of steps each day for a certain duration at a certain pace.  It is working, so i am gonna keep trying.  Some days I am better than others.  

If I go to the caldera twice a day, that's about right.  But doing the same thing over and over is getting boring.  About a dozen different people have come to take this old guy on his walkies.  That helps a lot.  

Last fall the boots built me a place to put some trail tools.  I have slowly been carrying tools up to the lean-to like thing and have been adding a bit of a new trail.  

This is what I was thinking. I would make sure that the pully system can work independently. They're usually set up in such a way that it doesn't take much energy to move up and down.

Jim

r ransom wrote:And then there's the idea of a dumb waiter for moving firewood to the upper level.  That comes in quite cheap and is usually just a door in the floor and a lift shaft underneath.  That would get rid of problem 2 from the first post if we got a normal stair lift.  

This thread is so much fun! Keep 'em coming...

Jim