Tyler Ludens

Hi Carmen, sorry it took so long for me to reply.  There used to be a permaculture meetup group in San Antonio but I have been out of touch with them for many years.  Have you had any success finding a group?

Our permaculture for the elderly has been very successful so far. After a few years of living with us at our small place in the country, my father died peacefully in his sleep here at age 94.  Now my husband and I are making plans for our own aging in place. We  plan to put the land in trust and after a few years invite younger people to move here so we can pass the land on to them.

Update 2025

Important new feature is a composting chicken system.  My chickens are still very tiny, but already working in the compost pile.

I think I only ended up planting one variety, the Meyer.  We had one good lemon year, with about a dozen fruit, but since then we've had a couple of extreme cold events.  I might try again with a hardier variety of citrus, such as Satsuma, and improve winter protection.  

Tremendous growth!

The old big garden has been reconfigured as a main crop or staples garden.  Currently planted:

Flour corn
Tatume summer squash
Rancho Marques winter squash
Some other variety of Moshata winter squash
White potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Fava beans
Watermelon

Also some trees:

Apple
Peach
Moringa
Mulberry

I'm using grass clippings as the primary fertilizer/mulch for this garden.

Many new projects this year, and many failures revealing themselves.

New projects:

Fence for family cemetery (nearly finished)

Eclipse Camp (a big project)

New chicks!

New big garden


Plants that died or are failing:

Jelly Palm (died)

Pineapple Guavas (died or just sit there)

Meyer Lemon (froze almost to graft)

Inexpensive fruit trees from TyTy Nursery (all died)

A bunch of subtropical stuff I shouldn't have bought (died)


This may be the last year I can do anything new as my Dad is rapidly failing from Alzheimer's and I'll soon be devoting most of my time to caring for him.  

Thank you, Anne.

Kim, good for you for having these conversations, difficult as they may be.  I still need to find out what my only blood sibling plans for her body post-life.

My biggest project this spring has been the installation of this iron fence around the cemetery.  A fence is required by law so I chose to invest in a proper cemetery fence.