If you live in the city and need a place to earn your PEP badges, we have 30 acres for you.
We charge people to come out and camp or play with their dog ... but if you are willing to conduct some kind of useful permaculture work while you are there, free of course. We don't have a budget to pay for help, so only if you can work for the experience.
One offsite skill we are looking for is someone to host a meetup group for us. We can pay (in crypto) for the meetup.com costs. We would like someone to manage pictures and events in exchange for plants, time on the property ... whatever we have besides cash.
Here are pics from our 1st Meetup ... beginning the buildout of a community garden located just outside the fence of the property. When done, anyone can drop in 24/7 and plant a plant (label it) or take a plant
Pictures like these are what we'd like to find someone to post in various local social media.
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we have over 40 rollback dumpster loads of woodchips to spread
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a layer of mulch to keep the weeds down
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stacking pallets for a water tote, and 3 planting stations
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done for the day
row row row your boat, gently down the stream
merrily merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
I have the compost collection tank moved over, various planting stations setup, and now i'm preparing the place to park my trailer.
We've been getting free spent mycelium blocks from a mushroom company. I'm so excited to possibly have all my potting soil inoculated with Lion's Mane, Oyster, and others!
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...can't believe they give these blocks away -- FREE
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Lion's Mane on oak log
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mix block with wood chips, put in old tree pot, cover, water ... that easy
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gonna toss a block in my compost from time to time and see what happens
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stacking brown layer ... so easy to get this time of year
row row row your boat, gently down the stream
merrily merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
...looks like i'm gonna complete at least 2 BB's just prepping the spot for my trailer. This is the kind of work we have here tho ... lots of cedar to trim, erosion control berms to build, and grass to cut with a cycle because its too rocky to mow.
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...keeping trimmed cedar near for erosion control
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...I always work in crocs ... only shoe wide enough for the human foot
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I still have a few more sessions to level the piles of rock here.
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we have really great sunsets in Texas!
row row row your boat, gently down the stream
merrily merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
PIP Magazine - Issue 19: Ideas and Inspiration for a Positive Future
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