GAMCOD at Blackberry Acres

To see what GAMCOD is, check this thread: https://permies.com/t/241168/GAMCOD-square-feet-degrees-colder

I think I'm going to try this out and I've figured out my spot. There's a path that heads ESE from my yard/garden into the woods. I don't want to go far from home. On the right side of that path is the barn and a pole building that collapsed 14 months ago under record-setting snow. That pole building means that there's access to the sun from the path where there didn't used to be. So I'm thinking to mark off either a 4x50 or 10x20 bed, cut some trees, dig out the incredibly pernicious blackberry bramble, and maybe build a hugelmound.

Wishing you success.

I staked out my 200 sqft! (Frozen ground made this a little harder than it needed to be.)

1:49 video documentation:


(And I need to work on my video presence...maybe scripting for even a short and obvious video makes sense since this feels pretty clumsy. There's a spot in the first segment where I'm trying to explain this very simple thing and stumbling over what to say where I visibly roll my eyes at myself for being ham-fisted...er mouthed? :-) )

Very SKIP like flagging

This was a few days ago, but I cleared my 200 sqft.

2:22 video documentation:

Things have been in a bit of a holding pattern here. My plot:

I was going to mark out my new zone today but it is also snowing!

Yay for the moisture?

I have utterly failed to keep up with this project as more pressing tasks have eaten up the time I have in the yard. I was playing with the idea of a very minimalist late-start haybale based garden but I have to review whether using offsite hay is legit…I’m thinking it isn’t.

Here’s what my nascent hugelmound looks like just now:

Christopher, any updates on your gamcod project?

Ha! I have a bunch of "film", but no point. I failed to get the hugel built and so I stacked up a 10'x20' patch of haybales and planted into that. But it doesn't count because it's not planting into dirt. The good news is that I now have a 10'x20' patch of dirt that's been occulted by the hay-garden so I'm ready to go next year. :)

I did actually participate in GAMCOD last year, but I've only just gotten around to compositing all the video together. I still need to figure out calories harvested from my documentation.