hi all! my name's Andy and i live in western Colorado - more high desert here (Colorado Plateau biosphere) than mountains. my wife and i bought our first house last year and have begun a
permaculture experiment with our property, approximately 1/8 of an acre of normal residential property in zone 7a. we're going small scale, focusing on what we can generally do ourselves, getting most of our supplies from thrift stores,
Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist, or other folks' spring cleaning!
our property, when we acquired it, was largely bare dirt. one
honey locust in the front
yard, dirt in the front, side, and back, dead tree overhanging our power main, dying
trees breaking the
fence with our neighbors... i.e. it was a "fixer upper", and that's not to mention the inside! we spent the first six months focusing on the inside, and now we're working on the outside. the attached photo is from a few days after we bought the house.
so far, i started a
compost pile in the fall which we fed kitchen scraps and leaves all winter; we removed the trees that were messing with the
fence and had them chipped to provide us with mulch; we had gutters professionally installed and are putting in
water storage/diversion elements; and now we are preparing our garden plots for this year. my wife has some
gardening experience and i have absolutely zero, so she's starting a kitchen herb garden and i'm starting a bed of potatoes. we have big plans but are starting where we are.
i'm excited to meet you all, learn from you, and get inspired!
-andy
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