Kyle's Permie Bootcamp (BRK)

My farm has failed attempts to make straight line drainage of wet spots instead of enhancing  the meandering flow that was already there.  Mostly because they were taught machines should go in straight lines for efficiency.
After all my mower has a steering wheel, my scythe conforms to the contours and I have boots for my feet.  the natural system would work so much better today if they had not dug diches where they did.

BRK Post 101

Today's brain feast was all about cool to cold temperate regions. How to build and orientate buildings for passive heating and cooling, growing conditions, dealing with the winter season, and managing livestock and pasture well.

I took a lot of good ideas from today. Where in the landscape to plant food forests and homes, and where to put sheltering bands of hardy species to protect the land and life were both very helpful.

Going through Alan's observation class and doing the PDC along with it has super charged my observation of the world. I notice how the wind changes through the day, where and what phase the moon is, listening to birds talk to each other, and what plants are growing and where they are in the landscape. The patterns are emerging.

Thanks Greg, happy to send these posts out. We do so much stuff every day I want to keep track and show everyone.

Hi Kyle. That plant you describe as "Looks like a dandelion but it's four times the size", I presume the flowers were not yellow like dandelions, but purple. I gathered lots of seeds of such plants. As far as I know you in the USA give it the name 'salsify'. The Latin name is Tragopogon porrifolius. In Dutch we have more than one name for it, most often it is called 'paarse morgenster' (purple morning star). I want to grow more of them because the roots are edible, it seems they have a nice taste.