Andrew Greaves

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What is the status on this? I see that there are no replies to this post for almost two years. I can commit to full time.
2 days ago
It sucks to get all sentimental but how does one shake the feeling that they dont want to be in the place they are in doing the things they do when they could be off somewhere else doing what they really want to do..... at the drop of a hat? Yet this one (me) also recognizes that life is pretty damn good the way it is.
4 days ago
Listening everyday to podcasts by paul and the gang (683-690) and youtube videos about gardening, I couldnt figure out how to quote nancy about her comment and question about the herb spiral and stephens growcano, but yes exactly like an herb spiral but something that makes it feasible to walk up to the top. would it be possible to make a structure that enriches the soil and also provides easy access to the top of the mound, How high could I get the hugelkultur bed? 100 feet?!?!? I checked out stephens growcano, and yes I did like it. Me and stephen think alot alike, and have similar life experiences.
I have found a youtube channel that I really like called something like silas mercer farmstead, the channel has really good new ideas, lots of ideas that I have never heard of before. My wife has land in Mexico.......and we dream alot about growing a farmstead  down there. She only has .02 acres from my calculations, on the documents it says 150 square meters. Please let me know if you calculate something different. Her sister has another .02 acres which borders my wifes land and her cousin has another.02 so that is a total of .06 which is not much land. I looked up the climate that it is in (subtropical highland climate) elevation 8,000 ft, In the pictures that she showed me, I see some prickly pear and something that looks like joshua tree. It is pretty exciting but also kind of disappointing because if I am not mistaken, If we build a house that is 1200 square feet. Our current condo is 1,200 sq feet and we have 3 bedrooms 2 baths, that gives us room to have a 1,200 sq ft garden, which is a fairly good size garden, so thank goodness I put this here in words, because I feel better about the situation now. I gotta get to work now.  I will write more later.
6 days ago
We have an ant infestation in our kitchen. Please provide recommendations for Permaculture solutions to get rid of the ants in our kitchen. They dont bite as far as we can tell.
1 week ago
https://youtube.com/shorts/NYxWRVQblOo?is=cUIbvh28VADtkBGs Well, here gos a shot at trying toshare a video. Let me know if it works on yourend. Watch especially if you are investigating different chicken management systems.
1 week ago
Im listening to podcast 684, and salivating over stevens proposal of how to propel the bootcamp forward. A gamcod at wheaton labs. Stephen starts talking about this at 21:17 and  He wants 3 people to be there for the growing season, presumably 2025. Was it successful? Was there any cash exchanged, the original camcod was $100,000/yr/ per person....... What happened to this? I would love to participate in something like this.
1 week ago
Is there anyway a draft can be saved here?  i had a post going to reply to nancy, went to google something, and now its gone.  Anyway, yes exactly like an herb spiral, and yes much like the grow cano. Be back later to comment more.
1 week ago
I am back in the concrete jungle, fighting to get back out. Im using reddit  to find  some companies  that would hire me. Subreddits like r/remote jobs r/customerservice. Should i get a job in missoula and then commute back and forth from my job to pauls land? The cheapest accomodations at pauls are $300 per month. Scenarios that keep running through my head are, for example, working at the missoula airport wednesday through sunday snd then i could work monday and tuesday on the farm. What car should i buy? Would fred like to sell me his red truck? Should i buy a vehicle in missoula or arizona? Is this blog helping me stay on track?
1 week ago
No time to post, sorry to bother you with this meaningless post, but this is just here for me.
2 weeks ago
Its a feeble attempt but it still counts as an attempt. Im trying to post something here everyday, and today i would like to critique the hugel mounds at wheaton labs. Some of the mounds are shaped as keyhole gardens which makes sense and i understand some of the physics of why people shape their gardens this way, and some of the hugels at the lab and base camp are shaped in order to funnel the cold air down and out of the area the hugels are in. My main criticism of the hugels out there is that many of them are exceedingly difficult to climb, but some of them have easy to follow paths and some of them have "stairs". I will include pictures. The other thing that i would like to see out there at the lab and base camp is a hugel mound that has a path which starts at the bottom of a circular mound and the path follows the mound in concentric circles all the way around until you get to the top.  I know this type of structure has a name in permie circles, and i could probably find it but its late, i got to get upand work SUPER early! Laterzzzzzz
2 weeks ago