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According to the Sunset Western Garden book I'm in zone 8a - Mediterranean climate with cold wet winters and dry hot summers. Average Precip is ~50" and the soil I am working with is almost exclusively broken down andesite (volcanic mineral).
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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This was built in Feb of '12
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Description: Hugelbed Almost Finished")
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Description: Different Angle")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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I did have to add some 16" bicycle wheels to make it something that could be moved without draft horses, though.
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Description: Side view")
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Description: Looking into the nesting box")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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Description: North Facing Side (away from sun)")
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Description: South Facing Side (facing sun)")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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- Obtain a rooster and start letting the hens raise some chicks.
- Build another hugelbed on the east line of the property. This will be a better place for the cooler weather/shade loving plants, while the bed I already have is in the direct sun 8+ hours a day.
- Install fencing around the front yard so I can let the chickens range about more.
- Build a lean-to woodshed against the garage, which will free up space for a cheap table saw in the garage.
That pretty much covers my short term goals that I'm willing to do around here, the rest of the things I want to do will have to wait until it's my own land.
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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In the meantime, here's the thread showing some fun I've had with a wood-chip fed rocket stove:
http://www.permies.com/t/8664/stoves/self-feeding-wood-chip-burning#80803
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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) and I got access to some equipment and operator for a day thanks to good ole dad. We managed to clear about 1/2 an acre of mostly manzanita and choke-cherry and managed to make a 6' deep hugelbed lined with large rocks from the cleared area. Without getting too exact with the measurements I'd say that the bed has ~1000 sq.ft. of plantable surface area - and that's going to be the small bed of the 3 I plan on installing in this cleared area!
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Description: South Hugelbed Area Before")
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Description: Southern Hugelbed Area Being Cleared")
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Description: 1st Bed After A Few Layers of Brush and Chips")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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are you saving some manzanita nad chokecherry plants? some herpophiles (think thats the right word for reptile lovers) and other pet owners will pay good money for manzanita wood because its small yet sturdy and can take a lot of wear and tear before giving out to reptile/bird claws, plus it looks cool!
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Devon - no need to save the manzanita, there's plenty more if I ever need it. I can't say that I've really tried to sell it yet, I have plenty of my own uses for it.
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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I just hope that I'm doing the hugelculture chant propertly there at the end - I've heard that that is one of the most important parts of the entire process.
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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The next shot is of my property directly opposite where the shot of my neighbors woods was taken. In this area I've done the preliminary thinning and canopy raising but haven't piled any of the brush.
The final shot is of an area where I've gotten all the brush piled in windrows created on contour. Initially they won't do much as far as water capture goes, maybe slow down a little surface run-off and soak up a little bit, too. As time goes on though I figure that the woody material should be colonized pretty well with different fungi, as well as collecting falling forest litter, abandoned rodent/bird nests and dead plant matter created from the few things that manage to grow through the pile then die. Eventually I should have a pretty good sponge running along contour made from the waste created during forest clearing/fire-safing.
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Description: Neighbor's property")
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Description: Initial clearing")
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Description: After piling")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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Description: Soil Horizons")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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The other pictures are just views from the property that I really like.
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Description: Shaving Horse")
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Description: Mt. Shasta view")
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Description: Mt. Eddy view")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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The hugelbeds have been a mixed bag. There are definite signs of increased water infiltration above and below the beds with some pretty lush growth already. On the other hand the beds themselves still need some time to really mature. Even using chainsaws to cut the brush and equipment to crush the brush, as well as putting many loads of woodchips on top, the beds are pretty "fluffy" and dry out in our hot winds here. I think that part of the problem is that most of the material that I used was pretty fresh so it's going to take longer to be decayed to the point of moisture retention. The beds are also ground squirrel magnets, with a new hole being burrowed on what seems to be a weekly basis. To address these things I've been collecting the mushrooms I find in our woods and making a slurry that I dump over the bed. I've only been doing that this spring but I'm optimistic that doing so will increase the colonization rate and subsequent decay of the woody materials. Now that I have a little bit better soil between the beds due to the increased water infiltration coupled with my ground cover mix, I should be able to plant a few wind resistant shrubs/small trees between the beds to help act as a wind break/provide a little shade. I haven't really made up my mind but right now I'm leaning towards a chestnut with a mulberry tree to each side.
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Description: Lot's of woodchips!")
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Description: Decent growth w/no watering")
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Description: Groundcover closeup")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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Description: Unworked land....for now.")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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Description: Ducks and willow sprouts")
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Description: Vigorous shoots from the willows")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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Hans Albert Quistorff, LMP
land available on the Key Peninsula
gmail hquistorff
Hans Quistorff wrote:We did the same thing with fig branches down between Orland and Willows. Used a hydrospade to make holes about 3 feet deep and stuck the branhces in in the fall and the next spring they leafed out and grew fine. Made a wind and sun shade on the south side and also produced food.
It gets cold enough up here that I have to really identify my warm microclimate zones if I don't want to put too much effort into protecting the figs. I am thinking of doing a couple figs to the south of a constructed rocky "dish" just north of a pond - that's one of my plans for getting a few warmer climate trees to make it up here. We'll see, "the best laid plans..." and all.
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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Description: Path to camp")
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Description: Home sweet home")
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Description: Solar shower")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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For those who are curious here's a couple shots of the interior of my tent. Yeah, I had a couch...
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Description: Bunk cots make a couch")
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Description: Kinda organized")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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Description: Blue fields")
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Description: There's a dragonfly in there")
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Description: Getting bushy")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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Miles Flansburg wrote:Michael, that pond is awesome !
Thanks Miles!
So here's a shot of the property that's getting designed, more to come!
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Description: The Property")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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Description: 5")
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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The gridwork of animal pens that's currently in the northwest part definitely isn't what I would have recommended but it's what is in place. The clients would like ideas for this area but it's a complicated one that's going to require some serious thought. So for now I focus on the easy open land and hope that maybe the results will be so drastic that they'll be willing to listen to me and re-work the animal housing system that they currently have in place.
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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nice possiblity to build up a savanna type system, with tree strips that can be used as pens for the horses, and the trees could give a yield. many possiblities nice to hear you've got this opportunity.
yes the division that is in place now for the horses isn't great but probably now is to soon to tell them to change it you'll arrive there eventually. You could think of a way to sort of use the creation of a system with swales and trees to divide the land so they can see what opportunities they have for future design on the existing used portion of the land.
all the best
P.s. I read your story about the pond on this thread and the other one in the pond forum, great work out with the pigs! awesome
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Miles Flansburg wrote:Michael, What is/are the clients goal/s for the property?
All they talk about is water catchment and rehydration for the wells. I'm trying to slowly get them to think about using all that acreage for a nice paddock shift system but they seem reluctant right now. If what I'm leaning towards doing on the property gets implemented, though, I think that they won't be able to resist putting the horses on the beautiful pasture, at least maybe for the spring and fall months.
Lorenzo Costa wrote: I would look at the runoff from the tracks on the left of the photo, can it be redirected via swales to a swale that crosses the property and maybe where you can think of a dam?
nice possiblity to build up a savanna type system, with tree strips that can be used as pens for the horses, and the trees could give a yield. many possiblities nice to hear you've got this opportunity.
Yep! That's pretty much exactly what I'm leaning towards minus the dams, this sit's too dry and windy. It's looking like 3 or 4 swales on contour with just the slightest slope to zig-zag the water across the property is what I'm going to shoot for. In between those main swales I'm going to recommend Yeoman style keyline ripping as well as access roads running on contour between sets of swales. Those access roads which will actually create another set of swales.
There is pretty regular wind to deal with here so I'm looking at planting for height/density on the main swales to act as wind breaks. I'm going to recommend that the areas that are being keylined be planted just for soil building purposes the first couple of years and then transition it over to a more horse-specific pasture.
One of the hardest parts of this whole job is going to be sourcing the large number of non-mainstream plants to put in the swales. Anybody have 8000 black locust saplings they need to get rid of?
"Instead of Pay It Forward I prefer Plant It Forward" ~Howard Story / "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~John Muir
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